Women’s Sewing Project

Kenya – Spurring one another on towards love and good deeds

Kenya – Spurring one another on towards love and good deeds

AE is grateful to God for the progress we have witnessed in our Mathare Women Project and the Soweto Kayole Clinic. It's incredible to see disadvantaged women given opportunities to sustain themselves, and to witness lives transformed through the provision of health...

Ethiopia – “I have hope for my life now”

Ethiopia – “I have hope for my life now”

AE's participation in Ethiopia's Emergency Response Program and the Sewing Project for Vulnerable Women has been an answer to prayer and a genuine blessing. The benefits of both are being felt by entire communities. Our first round of graduates from the sewing program...

AESA team – Breaking through barriers

AESA team – Breaking through barriers

Our African Enterprise South Africa (AESA) team, under the leadership of Theuns Pauw, has hit the ground running this year with two new mission staff members that have joined. The team has a great dynamic and the members are skilled in the various areas of ministry,...

Ngezandla Zethu Project Update

Ngezandla Zethu Project Update

We have been seeing some fantastic outcomes from AE’s Ngezandla Zethu project in South Africa. 35 women and 3 men have enrolled in the 2021 Sewing and Fashion Design Program. So far we have celebrated 13 graduates, 4 of whom are now successfully running their own...

Sewing Project in Ethiopia

Sewing Project in Ethiopia

In October last year, we shared with you AE Ethiopia’s vision of starting a sewing project for vulnerable women. The team identified ladies who were collecting firewood to sell in the Arba Minch area. With no other options for earning an income, these women walked...

Transforming lives across the African Continent

Transforming lives across the African Continent

Aid and Development Testimonies and Stories  “We cannot be lulled into a false sense of security. The devastating surge of cases and deaths in India, and increases in other regions of the world, are clear signs that the pandemic is not yet over in African countries. A...

Anastazia Joseph’s story: Malawi Vulnerable Women Project

Anastazia Joseph’s story: Malawi Vulnerable Women Project

When Anastazia Joseph divorced her husband, she was left with four children to care for. She tried getting a job but no one would hire her. She was already 30 and had very few formal qualifications. In desperation, she took up work as a prostitute. “I was doing it...

The Makings of a Modern Woman – Malawi

The Makings of a Modern Woman – Malawi

In her mid-thirties, Martha Njovulema was on her way to becoming a modern woman: she had tried her hand at teaching, baking, and small-business running, was a working mother keen to help her husband provided financially for their four children, and was on the look out...