We opened the Congo Restoration Sewing School in 2011 as an outreach to women
in Eastern Congo who had been raped.
Every six months, 60 women graduate from our sewing school in Bigeda, a small village in Eastern Congo. We have added literacy courses to the program and try to provide the women with soap, food, or something else of value in the Congo. If
the women spend the day at the sewing school and return home empty handed, their families will think they are wasting their time. If they return home with soap, their time at the school will be valued.
We are asking you to show your confidence in the women of Congo by funding the opening of a second sewing school in Bukavu, the largest city in the region.
Our goal is to give each woman a sewing machine and a microloan of $75 when they graduate so they can start their own businesses. In return, they will pay back the microloan and teach three more women to sew, continuing the cycle of
education.
We need $15,100 to open the school for one year, which includes rent, two
