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HEAL TRANSFORM EMPOWER

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We're Shining Brighter! 

IT ALL STARTED WITH A CHICKEN FARM,  
some faith, and a big dream... 

It all started with a small chicken farm in Wakiso, Uganda and has led to a proven, comprehensive program that helps survivors heal, transform, and be empowered.  Our holistic, transformational program provides wellness services, vocational education, and life skills workshops, for 30 survivors of Commercial Sex Exploitation (CSE) each year.

A PATH TOWARD FREEDOM  

This flagship project has grown from its humble beginnings in 2016, when a small salon and boutique provided practical, on-the-job training to ten brave survivors, into a comprehensive and high-impact program that restores dignity, identity, and resilience to survivors of sexual exploitation. We walk alongside the young women, who come through our doors at the 10,000 Lights Women's Centre (10KLWC), in Kampala, Uganda, as they become whole, independent, hopeful and joy filled women.  

Our program provides tools for participants to become fully autonomous, as they work through their trauma and heal from lived experinces.  They learn vocational and practical life skills which give them the ability to become economicallyt independent and take responsibility for themselves and their children.  They become empowered as they rejoin community, model good citizenry and moral codes, and become women of positive influence. 

We need your help to graduate this year's class! 

This year's class is currently finishing up their internships and studying to pass exams.  We desparately need funding for them to complete their course.

Your donation supports...
  • program participants, as they navigate the healing process through individual and group counseling sessions. 
  • purchase of class materials and equipment, for vocational education in Hair Styling or Tailoring.
  • access to health services, treatments and family planning.
  • vocational testing - a qualifier for participants to intern and work at local community businesses.
  • continued support to program graduates as they transition back into community.  
  • anti-trafficking education and prevention workshops, in Kampala, and locally in Massachusetts.

Thank you in advance for your generous support.  Funds earned this giving season will help this year's class finish their course work and internships, be tested and graduate!