{"id":3418,"date":"2012-09-07T04:17:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T09:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2012-08-31T13:18:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T18:18:48","slug":"independence-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/2012\/09\/independence-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence for Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3425 alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/08\/Kaukme-Mission-trip-Nov-30-09-053-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/08\/Kaukme-Mission-trip-Nov-30-09-053-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/08\/Kaukme-Mission-trip-Nov-30-09-053-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to be independent and have power for oneself?\u00a0 How are these things obtained?\u00a0 For the women involved in the Hope for Widows project in South Sudan, independence is being gained through vocational and financial training.\u00a0 This project seeks to empower the women of South Sudan to care for their children and themselves.\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/relief\/projects\/cd\/sudan-hope-for-widows\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0for more specific information on this project.<\/p>\n<p>The multi-faceted empowerment of these women reflects well the call to advocate for the voiceless, but to also work to change the systems in place that took away their voices in the first place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=3418&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it mean to be independent and have power for oneself?\u00a0 How are these things obtained?\u00a0 For the women involved in the Hope for Widows project in South Sudan, independence is being gained through vocational and financial training.\u00a0 This project seeks to empower the women of South Sudan to care for their children and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[291,327],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-development","tag-sudan","tag-women"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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