This blog was created to spread the vision of our work in Tanzania. After working in Arusha for a few years now I have discovered that to make any real change we must focus on the women of this community. Our nonprofit Shining Light (www.shiningalight.org) has been created to provide jobs to women in extreme poverty so that they can be empowered to care for themselves and their families. Our goal is to keep women working and children educated.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Our training of the women continues to grow. After discovering that they are naturals at beading we moved on to the leather part of the sandals. This is a much trickier part of making the sandal and is usually done by th men in this country. Our women were eager to learn and not just how to make a sandal sole but how to craft leather in general. We realized that there is much more to working with leather and therefore hired an expert to come in and teach the women all about working with this material. So now after their training they will not only know how to make a sandal sole but how to craft many items out of leather, how to sew it and how to finish it. Stay tuned to the many products that will come your way after this training is completed. Are you excited?
WE ARE!
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