{"id":6475,"date":"2015-04-01T13:32:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T18:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/?p=6475"},"modified":"2015-04-01T13:32:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T18:32:43","slug":"deannas-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/2015\/04\/deannas-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Deanna&#8217;s transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6477\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/Goma-2014-11-13-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Goma 2014 11 (13)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/Goma-2014-11-13-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/Goma-2014-11-13-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u201cDeanna\u201d is an older woman, married to a man with several younger wives.\u00a0 Her husband cast her aside, and she was\u00a0left to live on the street. She found CWR partner HOLD, and became a Culinary Arts student. When she graduated, she got a job at a restaurant \u2013 but the owner forced her to quit when she refused his sexual advances.<\/p>\n<p>Because of HOLD\u2019s support network, she was able to obtain a loan that kept her from becoming homeless a second time. In fact, she used that loan to start a catering business of her own! She is also learning to read and write through HOLD\u2019s Literacy Program.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6476\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6476\" class=\"wp-image-6476 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/Goma-2014-11-264-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Goma 2014 11 264\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/Goma-2014-11-264-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/Goma-2014-11-264-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-6476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deena with another peer educator serving in the community engaging young men about sexuality, responsibility, and leadership in their own community<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This experience was so powerful, and her life was so transformed that she became a peer educator at HOLD. Now she sells her cakes and specialty food \u2013 and in her spare time, she teaches others about health, hope, and how they can have better lives. She has all of this because she is connected to a community through HOLD, which she now calls her family.<\/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=6475&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDeanna\u201d is an older woman, married to a man with several younger wives.\u00a0 Her husband cast her aside, and she was\u00a0left to live on the street. She found CWR partner HOLD, and became a Culinary Arts student. 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