Transformation!

These Little guys now have a chance at a proper education and to a life filled with options and opportunities. Thanks to the "Women to Work" project that Shining a Light started in Arusha, Tanzania. Their mother, Anna, is being trained in the skill of beading. She is helping us to make our beautiful hand beaded sandals that we sell at www.shiningalight.org. We are also teaching her to read and write in English, Health Care, Basic Business Skills and Money Management. Anna has struggled most of her life. From an early age when she had to go to work because her father couldn't afford to educate her, to loosing her first husband in a car accident and struggling on her own to provide for her and her son and then to excepting another man into her life just because she thought he would provide for her and give her security. She now has 3 little boys and can provide for her family of four all by herself without suffering at the hand of an abusive husband or begging from family members. She says this is the first time in her life where she doesn't have to worry about where the rent will come from, how to pay school fees or what she will have to put herself through to get either one. She is living in safety and security now and finally feels Hope.