Partnership in Hope exists to support sustainable development using the CHE model. This is the case of vulnerable communities that have had a significant impact on the topic of sewing. Many women learn to make clothing through workshops taught by a community leader, where they are taught step by step how to make dresses, shoes, etc. baby clothes, shirts, bags, among others.
Based on this, they have learned to be thrifty people and comment that sometimes they do not have anything to work with and this helps them in their family’s economy, being an important role. Juana Calderón comments that thanks to her sewing business she managed to pay for an eye exam that had to be performed in another department of the country and travel, through her sewing she managed to collect 5,000 córdobas equivalent to $136.43 dollars. Laughing, he tells us, “I rather brought it back,” stating that he has money left over.
The closeness to God and the importance of the spiritual has strengthened their daily lives and they share that thanks to this they have changed their lifestyle
For the year 2020, FACIAL MASKS were created
By the grace of God, asking for help to make sewing machines more affordable for women in small rural communities so they could learn to sew and increase family income was answered. None of us could have imagined the situation of the year 2020 of Covid-19, thanks to their ‘hand up’, those women prepared and made 13,000 masks!
The masks are given out to Community Health Evangelism groups, high schools, health centers and hospitals in communities in many areas of Nicaragua. In addition, some of the women are also making masks, using their own materials, and selling them as a personal venture to help their families.
Had you not helped these women get launched as seamstresses, their skills would not have been available to help protect their families, their communities and their nation. Thank you for being part of God’s provision for, and protection of communities in Nicaragua. Samaritans Purse, Canada, who work with the CHE Association, funded the purchase of materials.
Special thanks to Mel West and Rainbow Network.
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