Empowering widows to become self-sufficient through Dignity, Joy, Health & Love.
Hope 4 Women International is our new division of Hope 4 Kids
International. We are empowering women to become self-sufficient with
businesses of their own and to raise their dignity through tea parties,
day spas and celebrating women.
Hope through Dignity
We bring widows together for an afternoon of tea and laughter. We fill basins with soapy water and ask the women to soak their feet and relax while sipping tea and munching on donuts. Then, we polish their fingernails and give them lipstick and new head scarves. We wash, apply lotion and place plastic bags over their feet. Then comes the joy!
Hope through Health
In Uganda we have a clinic and a hospital where our widows can receive the care they need. We also do outreaches in the bush where they can receive medicine, have their open sores tended to, and are assessed as to whether further treatment in our clinic/hospital is necessary.
Women Outreaches
Women's Outreaches can be arranged for every H4KI trip.
The women's projects are not just for women. Men and teenagers are a welcome addition to these teams as we build mud houses and play with the widows' children.
Hope through Joy
We have furry foot massagers in which they insert their feet, as you would slip into comfy slippers. Pressing the power button and starting the vibration causes their expressions to change from shock to amusement. They refer to the foot massagers as motor cars.
We believe these women who are so concerned with just the basics in life that we all take so much for granted should be filled with laughter. For every 60 seconds they laugh- those are 60 seconds without pain.
Hope through Love
As we share an afternoon of fun and distribute gifts of soap, rice, saucepans and clothing we share God's love.
We also repair or replace crumbling houses. We start women in businesses such as selling vegetables, scarves, purses; manicure and pedicure businesses; roadside food services; tailoring and jewelry making. We tell them because Christ first loved us and showed us His mercy we want to pass that love along to them. We want them to know that God has not forgotten them.
We bring widows together for an afternoon of tea and laughter. We fill basins with soapy water and ask the women to soak their feet and relax while sipping tea and munching on donuts. Then, we polish their fingernails and give them lipstick and new head scarves. We wash, apply lotion and place plastic bags over their feet. Then comes the joy!
In Uganda we have a clinic and a hospital where our widows can receive the care they need. We also do outreaches in the bush where they can receive medicine, have their open sores tended to, and are assessed as to whether further treatment in our clinic/hospital is necessary.
