{"id":3917,"date":"2020-05-19T04:33:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T09:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=3917"},"modified":"2020-05-19T04:33:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T09:33:58","slug":"cwr-hairdressing-project-changes-for-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2020\/05\/cwr-hairdressing-project-changes-for-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"CWR Hairdressing project changes for refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2019 Covenant World Relief (CWR) supported a creative project that taught hair-styling and baking to unwed mothers, widows and daughters at the Inke and Bili refugee camps for refugees from the Central African Republic.\u00a0 \u00a0The project was enthusiastically received by everyone, particularly by the women as now they could style hair.<\/p>\n

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Mrs. Wasaletuku.\u00a0 Her husband left her over 2 years ago and she doesn’t know where he is.\u00a0 Without him she found it difficult to feed her 4 children and had no money to send them to school or for clothes. \u00a0But with this hair-styling project.\u00a0 Now she has mastered hair-styling.\u00a0 She braids hair for students and earns money to care for her family.\u00a0 She is happy.<\/p>\n

This project came about through Rev. Anthony Bofio’s 5 year history of working on various relief and long term recovery projects at these camps with the UN HCR.\u00a0 In early 2019 he and Rev. Emmanual Dole traveled to Goma, DRC to visit HOLD-DRC (Humanitarian Organization for Lasting Development. https:\/\/www.actforcongo.org\/hold-drc).\u00a0 HOLD-DRC is an NGO that works for sustainable long term development, particularly with women who have been abused in the violence around Goma.\u00a0 Two of the economic initiatives is to train participants in are hair-styling and baking pastry and then get them started in a small business.\u00a0 After his visit Rev. Bofio was inspired and proposed a project to send a couple young women from this area for training by HOLD.\u00a0 In June 2019 two women went for 4 months of training supported by CWR.\u00a0 Upon their return they started training the refugees.<\/p>\n

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Rev. Bofio commented about the training:<\/p>\n