Resident Writer/ Director of Widows' Concerns

Rachel heads up the Widows 2 B Won division of Hope 4 Kids International. She and her husband Robert have been to Uganda nine times in less than three years. While there they and their American team work with widows helping them to start their own businesses, pamper them with day spas, build and repair crumbling houses, teach new skills, and share their faith and hope in God. Teams have witnessed a transformation of women in despair to women filled with joy and hope for tomorrow as they realize God has not forgotten them. Not only are the lives of the widows changed but also those of their children whom are being fed and sent to school in order that their opportunities will be many. Widows 2 B Won partners with two organizations in Uganda called Smile Africa & True Vine Team Ministries.

Rachel and Robert have also traveled to Cuba, Romania, Russia, Chile and Peru with Hope4Kids. Rachel and her brother Tom Eggum, founder and president of Hope4Kids International have co-authored a book, God, Why Don't You Hear Their Prayer? It is scheduled to be released Feb. 1, 2008.

While she is in the States, Rachel travels throughout the country speaking to clubs, churches, women's groups, senior's groups, conferences and private gatherings on behalf of Hope4Kids International and the widows of Uganda.

Rachel can be reached at rachel@hope4kidsinternational.org or a message can be left at the Hope4Kids office 623-979-5516.