Working with Children

Ester

Ester came to one of our life skill women's project to receive a crochet hook to make a plastic market bag. She had a desire to become more than she had resources available to her. This was exhibited when she returned the very next day with not only one bag completed but three. Immediately, we knew that Ester was a champion. In the days that followed, we found her among the other women teaching them the very skill she had just been taught. We never saw Ester without a smile upon her face. We could tell that she was hungry for an opportunity to work with a responsibility to be trusted.

After 6 months, we returned with another expedition and found Ester in small kitchen cooking for all the primary and secondary children at our school. We walked up to her and asked her what she was doing. She said, "I now have a job and my three children are going to this school." Ester arises early each morning at 5am and works until 6pm each day preparing the food for the children at our school. It is a job that she is very thankful for because she can now proudly say all of her children attend school. No sacrifice is to much for mothers such as Ester, because what they desire is to give their children an opportunity to break the shackles of poverty by receiving an education. From a simple crochet hook, a desire to raise their children out of poverty and commitment, we know there are countless other Ester’s waiting to have a chance to say the same thing about their children…”All of my children are attending school.”

Come join us and help achieve these goals.