Josephine’s Story
Josephine cares for 9 children including 3 orphaned children. She has a heart full of love, but very limited material means. In 2011, she eked out a living selling firewood from the forest, generating $1 a day. Most days her children went hungry.
It was her obvious love and caring for all her children, the fairness with which she treated them all, orphaned or biological, that led the project administrator to include her in Village of Love.
Josephine has taken full advantage of everything that Village of Love has offered, from the micro-loan and livelihood skills programmes to women’s empowerment and counseling sessions.
She is now able to sell charcoal, homemade soap and beautiful baskets.
Has this impacted her children? The two pictures below say it all!
JOSEPHINE: 2011
JOSEPHINE 2014
UPDATE, 2022
This year, Josephine was one of 15 women to participate in a targeted empowerment program. She received a substantial small business loan with training, which she used to establish her own restaurant to serve local taxi drivers. She has been so successful that she can not only feed her children, but keep them in school.