In Isiro, a busy town in the North-Eastern Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Consolata Missionaries are doing everything they can to ensure that the people there have food and training for meaningful jobs to help their families. In a place like Isiro, where basic needs and rights are hard to come by, our missionaries have a dream: to establish a bakery for the benefit of the women of the area.
These women are often young single mothers abandoned by their husband and the father of their children. The goal of this program is to improve their living conditions and provide them with education about nutrition as well as ways to generate income with small businesses dealing with food production.
The idea is to teach them how to prepare food products not readily available and sell them to the local population. With the income, they will meet the needs of their own families, like health care costs and school expenses. Two young mothers have already, not only been able to accomplish this work, but have also been hired to teach others. Many are learning quickly and will soon have something they all dream of …a job!
Within one year, the project will have created an entirely new way for the young mothers to provide for themselves and their families. The overall budget for this first year is $13,116 (which will cover the purchase of bags of wheat flours, cooking oil, firewood, and teachers’ salaries for a year).
As much as we try, we cannot realize this dream by ourselves. We need the support of people like you to help raise the money necessary to continue this program.
Amount Requested: $13,116.
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