Widows Might
Skill and business training that empowers widows to support their families paired with Bible teaching that give them eternal HOPE.
24 months
Generational Hope
The Widow's Might Program seeks to instruct, encourage, and empower destitute widows by providing food assistance each month, skills training they can turn into a business, and Bible teaching.
The cost of this program is $65 per month, and the length of the program for each sponsored widow is 24 months. At the end of the 24 months each widow receives a "Business in a Bag" that provides her all the tools she needs to run her own business. Our Maasai widows receive five goats to start their own self-sustaining goat herd and our Kibera widows receive a sewing machine.
The impact of this program stretches beyond the widow herself, but allows her to support her children, send them to school and create a generational hope.
Skill Training
Five goats (Maasai Widows)
Sewing Machine (Kibera Widows)
Monthly Food Assistance
Bible Study
THE LIFE OF A WIDOW IS HARD
- Most of the time when a husband dies, his extended family comes and forcefully takes everything of value from the widow, often leaving her homeless.
- Widows are often forced to send their children to work at young ages to support the family.
- Many widows were victims of child marriage and never had the chance to attend school.
- The average age of our widows range from 20 years old to unknown (as many of our widows never knew their birthday).
Widows Might has proven to be highly effective in helping widows become completely self-supporting.
To date, 175 widows have graduated from our program with 88 currently enrolled.
Our graduated widows are able to afford homes for their families, put food on the table and send their children to school.
For every widow that we help, there are hundreds of other widows who also need assistance.
Widows Needing Sponsorship
Naitayiang Enekarei
ILK-WM36
Ilkerine Hope Center
Naitayiang is 41 years old and has six sons. Her husband, Kararet, was paralyzed for many years and he later passed away leaving her with the children. Four sons are in high school and two are in primary school. Naitayiang has been providing for the basic needs of her children through doing casual jobs in the village. It would be very helpful if she was able to participate in the Widows Might program to learn new skills to better support her family and to allow her older sons to remain in school and receive an education.
Naitayiang comes from the remote community of Ilkerine located in the heart of the Maasai tribe. This community, outside of Narok, is at a mile-high elevation. The majority of people live in mud houses, with no electricity and no running water. The Maasai people are herdsmen and depend on their livestock for their livelihood. Often the baby animals are kept in a small room inside their mud houses. Walking is the main mode of transportation and it is not uncommon for children to walk five miles or more to school.