Giving Hope Project: Empowering Lives

ZOE’s Giving Hope Empowerment Project works with children to help them understand issues such as child rights, household management, school reintegration, stigmatization and community reintegration, and family mediation.

Key Areas of Empowerment:

Food Security

Generally obtained within the first year, food security keeps children safe from malnourishment and exploitation.  Families joining the Project are immediately given basic planting tools for field cultivation.  The Working Group ensures that every family has a prepared field, and they are all given seeds to plant. Animals are given to the children to provide fertilizer for the crops and extra income for the families as the animals reproduce. Read Sarah’s Story of Hope.

Homes

Homes are built or provided for families and individual orphans living outside among animals or in other harsh, unacceptable conditions.  Read Abraham’s Story of Hope.

Income-Generation

Income is generated in the first year of Giving Hope by teaching basic work skills and business management. Working Groups receive small grants so that individual families may begin money-making projects. Many working groups form Co-ops and secure income together. Read about the Pig Rearing Project.

Health and Hygiene

Health and Hygiene training improves the health of children almost immediately. One Group leader shares, “We are not sick like we used to be. We didn’t know we needed to boil our water before we drank it.”

HIV/AIDS Education

HIV/AIDS education is helping to break the cycle of infection. Some groups are given grants to form anti-AIDS clubs and use drama, music, and dance to educate their communities. Read about the Champions.

The Love of Christ

The love of Christ is lifted up in every Giving Hope meeting and in all ZOE does.  Read Elie’s Story of Hope.

Further information about the Giving Hope Project is available from the links to the right.