Countries

A 2010 Lesotho Update

Recently many kits were able to be distributed in Losotho. Below is a message from our partner there.

First of all let me say thank you for getting the pads for the women of Africa to the Hamlin team.  They brough an entire crate of them.  Today we handed them out to the young school girls and young women of the village of Mapaleng in Lesotho, Africa.  I wish I could explain to you their enthusiasm and actual cries of joy!  They were SO thankful.  The younger girls were a little embarrassed, but eventually came forward.  Their mothers almost started crying, which is something for a Masotho woman.  They hardly ever show their tears.  Please, please thank all the women who helped prepared the packages.  Your faithfulness to the women of Africa has made a huge impact.

A Malawi Update From 2009

The Malawi 2009 Women's Outreach Conference was held in July by Hands On Africa.  
The following is a message from Andre with that organization along with pictures showing kits being handed out.
 
Hi Glenda

We are back home safely and had yet again a great trip. We had 70 women at
the conference and they were extremely happy with the kits. It was received
with great appreciation and joy. Thank you for allowing us to experience
the joy and blessing from the women in Africa by being able to bless them with
the kits. Seven Muslim women received Christ during the conference.
The balance of the kits we left with our nurse at the clinic and she will use them with the patients.
There is a need for it and she was grateful that there were some extra we could left with her.
I am leaving for Kenya on the 5th of September and we will have a women's
conference there as well for 4 days. If you will have some kits available
for then we will be able to take a bunch with us. The conferences in Kenya
are normally also attended by 70-80 women.

Attached is a few pictures.

God bless

Andre
 

A 2010 Ghana Update

Recently around 70 kits were able to be distributed in Ghana. Below are some messages from our partner there.

The message below tells  you I have been to my
actual home less than 2 weeks.  I brought one  kit in my
suitcase and mailed the others in boxes with used  hymnals
that were given to me.  I showed the first kit  to a pastor's wife who
ministers with young ladies who move down to
Kumasi from northern Ghana.  They are looking  for any
kind of menial work as most are unskilled.   She showed
the pads to the lady in charge of the women's  ministry in
their church.  Most of the ladies staying near  their church
came from villages in the north.  They were so  excited that
they were scrambling for the pads so the kit was  divided
up with 5 ladies getting one each.  They are  really eager
to get more.  I just received the others in  the mail this
week so have not sent them yet.  That lets you  know
that we could use many more - - even in Kumasi  which is
the second largest city in Ghana.  My friend  confirmed
what you said that they use rags in the  villages.
 
I wanted to tell you some  about what has been happening with the
supplies you made in Project Patricia.  I sent  a few to a friend in Tamale
in
northern Ghana who is working at a youth hostel  where girls come in from
villages
to stay while they go to school in Tamale.   They were happy to receive the
kits.
I sent a dozen kits to a friend in Accra, the  capital city, who was going
to
give them through her church, but I have not heard  feedback from her yet.
     Today a friend and I went  with a Ghanaian Pastor Samson to a town
near the
seminary campus.  Poor women come to that town  from northern Ghana looking
for
any work to earn a little money.  There is a  well at the edge of town
where they
use 5 gallon plastic jugs to haul up water like an  old fashioned well with
bucket used
to be.  They pour water into pans like a big  round dish pan 2 feet in
diameter.and carry
water to town to sell for some coins.  It is  hard work and they get little
money for it.
I had gone there several times before and we refer  to them as "the women
at the well."
I had typed the verses from Romans in their local  language to include in
the bags with
the English bookmark.  They cannot read, but  we told them to give the
papers to someone
who can read it to them.  I told the story  about the woman who touched the
hem of Jesus'
robe and was healed after 12 years.  Pastor  Samson interpreted into their
language.
When he told them about the woman being healed,  they clapped their hands.
Then I told them about you ladies sewing the items  and I gave out 26 kits
to them
individually.  They were holding out their  hands to get them before I
reached some of the women.
One spokeslady for the group thanked you for  thinking of them and asked
God to continue
blessing you.  Pastor said they hardly knew  what to say to express their
gratitude.
We went there at 12:15 p.m. when they take a short  break in the middle of
the day.
We were outside under some trees and a couple of  the ladies turned their
head pans upside down
on the ground to give my missionary friend and I  something to sit on.
Preschool children were
sitting all around in the dirt or on cloth spread  on the ground.
 

A Kenya Update 2010

This is a message from one of our partners that delivered some kits to Kenya sometime in 2010.

Just a couple of photos of the pads distributed at the schools. These girls
were extremely happy and have personally came and thank my wife and the
other ladies. We distributed 300 during this trip. The 200 in the container
plus the 100 I took with. In March we will take 300 more to cover the other
schools.
 
 
Thank you very much. You cannot imagine how much this meant to these girls.
Much more than for the adult women.

God bless