Hi friends, It’s International Handwashing Day … a perfect time to give you a proper update on our soap initiative. If you read our first post about this from July, we shared about the basic opportunity. Yes, we truly believe it’s a...
Earlier this month we conducted a set of home visits in Lusaka checking up on purse recipients. We learned a lot. In several respects, the visits were very depressing. But God is up to something very interesting – and we...
Hi everyone, Recently we received beautiful thank-you notes from some of the girls that received purses – and we wanted to share them with all of you. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do – they are...
Hi everyone, With just four weeks left before our October 1, 2016 priority deadline, we’d love to know if you’re working to complete some purses and send them to us. We’ve made a simple poll that let’s you response –...
Hi friends, We are incredibly excited to announce that we’ve set our goal for 2016 at 3,000 purses. We are also thrilled to be expanding into our 2nd purse distribution location. A community called Kapalulwe Hill (Kapa-lul-way). Can we hit this...
Wow – a big life milestone flashed in my face today! I got all emotional this afternoon when I saw that World Vision was retiring the program I had the honor of helping to create 10 years ago. It made me realize – when...
Lots of women in poverty know how to sew. They’ve learned the trade skill from their mothers or grandmothers. Usually without a sewing machine. They might not even know it – but they’re half way out of poverty. They’ve got...
As a donor – we need you to understand your role and how we see giving/charity/and the issues related to creating sustainable solutions. So I thought I’d outline our vision for helping the wonderful people of Ngombe Compound, Lusaka, and...
We believe the quality of your giving says a lot about the depth of your love. Quality matters. It matters in our personal lives as individuals – and it matters in our giving too. That’s one of the reasons I’m so...
