Women Empowerment

A ministry designed to provide either a micro loan or donation coupled with an education and training in business management. The projects can be for individuals or a group of women working together. There is a community and bible study element included in the trainings. Ideally, the project would help women generate their own income to provide for their families and they would learn proper business tactics to become self-sustaining and continue to grow and develop their business potential.

WEP UPDATE :: Wendo Wa Aka Ndiwa (Love of the Widows) in Makueni, Kenya

By Jennifer Payne|2024-09-30T11:20:48-05:00September 30th, 2024|Women Empowerment|

The Wendo wa aka Ndiwa Women Group in Makueni consists of 15 widows from different denominations. When we visited them for the first time in 2023, the women expressed a desire to support each other in their widowhood and to help each member to be economically stable. To achieve this goal, they desired to meet regularly for [...]

Sometimes We All Need An Extra Boost – Womens Empowerment in DR Congo

By Jennifer Payne|2024-05-01T13:27:08-05:00May 1st, 2024|Sustainability, Women Empowerment|

At the heart of TLAfrica is a mission to be a beacon of support and opportunity for East Africans to be resilient, empowered and self-sustainable. Our Women's Empowerment Program, started by Salome Ntamushabora, is the foundation in which we direct this effort for women and their families. Last August, Nelson Kilonzo, TLAfrica's program director, embarked [...]

Meet the New “Wamama wa Talanta” Women’s Group!

By Jennifer Payne|2020-10-30T11:20:16-05:00October 30th, 2020|Women Empowerment|

Can you imagine it? The entire world is in fear of this unknown virus that is killing millions. The cities are in lock-down. You've already been struggling to provide food and basic needs for you family. Steady work is hard to find. And when you get home, your disabled child needs your assistance. We're [...]

Scovia’s Testimony || Women Empowerment Program

By Jennifer Payne|2020-09-14T16:34:48-05:00September 3rd, 2020|Cow Project, Women Empowerment|

Scovia participates in TLAfrica's Women Empowerment Program. Scovia lives in the rural parts of Bungoma, Kenya. She received a cow from TLAfrica to help support her family through farming and agriculture. The cow provides milk for her family and to sell, while also providing much needed manure for her crops. Like many in the region, [...]

Tugirurkundo Sheep Project :: Women’s Empowerment Projects

By Jennifer Payne|2020-07-07T17:45:47-05:00July 7th, 2020|Sustainability, Women Empowerment|

"TUGIRURUKUNDO" SHEEP PROJECT, NYABIHU WOMEN GROUP Historical Background of the Project Nyabihu is a district in Western Province, Rwanda, which borders Eastern DR Congo, near Lake Kivu. Mukamira is the main city. The Nyabihu district is known for growing very good tea and great fishing for Tilapia. A group of 24 underprivileged women from a [...]

GOD PROVIDES FINANCES JUST IN TIME!

By Jennifer Payne|2020-02-14T00:29:56-06:00February 12th, 2020|Women Empowerment|

Rose Uwineza is one of the beneficiaries of the Women Empowerment Program (WEP) of TLAfrica. She lives in Goma, Keshero, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with her husband, Jacques Ahoba Ndeze, and their eleven children. She is a member of a local Baptist Church, Sayuni, and she has seen God providing for her family [...]

Her gift healed all wounds

By admin|2020-09-19T00:58:21-05:00April 30th, 2019|Women Empowerment|

Fixing their eyes away from each other, the two women sat in opposite corners of the room. After Consolata became a widow at a young age, she married her husband’s brother—a village custom in rural Kenya. As the second wife to Sarah, bitterness and resentment grew. While attending a TLAfrica Women’s Empowerment Conference on trauma [...]

All Glory to God

By admin|2020-09-19T00:58:35-05:00February 27th, 2019|Women Empowerment|

“Come visit me!” she excitedly asked on the phone. After a twenty-minute walk to her rural home in Kora, Rwanda, I found Gloria beaming with joy as she sat down to tell me her testimony. At only 23-years old Gloria felt hopeless. The second of five siblings, her parents could not afford to send her [...]

A New Kind of Harvest

By admin|2020-09-19T01:02:16-05:00February 27th, 2019|Women Empowerment|

It was three years ago when Jeanette’s life changed forever. There in the dusty church in her hometown of Karenge Sector, Rwanda, six women formed a group named Tabitha. With an initial investment from TLAfrica, these determined ladies began a booming agriculture business and found spiritual revival for their souls in the process. Now they [...]

She Fights a Different Battle

By admin|2024-02-27T14:33:34-06:00January 31st, 2019|Marriage, Women Empowerment|

In a nation plagued with conflict, she fights a different battle—keeping marriages intact. Kwihangana Hategeka Carine uses her training from the TLAfrica Marriage Enrichment Conferences to minister to couples and their families in the DR Congo. Kwihangana graduated from the three-year program in 2018 and now leads couples and family ministries at the Catholic Church in Goma. Goma [...]