by Guest Author | Aug 11, 2017 | African Road projects, Learning Trips, News and Updates, People
Guest post by Glenda Montgomery, 2017 Learning Trip participant The mandatory “feet on the carpet photo” at PDX marks my return to Portland from an extraordinary adventure with African Road this summer. During two weeks in July, a small group of us from the States was...
by Jennifer Hatton | Jun 7, 2017 | African Road projects, News and Updates
We are thrilled to report that progress is underway! The first portion of funds raised in our March campaign, Sewing Hope for Girls, has been released to our New Hope for Girls partners in Tanzania. With these funds, Consoler Wilbert, Director of the New Hope for...
by Kelly Bean, Executive Director | Mar 24, 2017 | African Road projects, News and Updates, People
I met Loveness, a member of New Hope for Girls Organization, in July 2016. Consoler — NHGO’s founder and mom to 32 rescued girls — asked me how old I thought Loveness was. I looked at her small frame and guessed 6 or 7 years old. In fact, Loveness...
by Craig Spinks | Feb 7, 2017 | African Road projects, Learning Trips, News and Updates
Sitting around a table stretching 24 feet are 32 girls between about the ages of six and twenty. Each has a story of great suffering, but you wouldn’t know that from the tone of this gathering. They are laughing, playing games, and interacting like sisters. It’s...
by Kelly Bean, Executive Director | Dec 29, 2016 | African Road projects, News and Updates, People
“Hello, my name is Parfaite Nimbona, and I am a single mom and a member of Pilgrims VICOBA group in Burundi. Over the last five years I have tried multiple small businesses (selling clothes, women’s products…) but because they all seemed to fail in the first...
by Timira Cobbs | Dec 22, 2016 | African Road projects, News and Updates, People
As a donor and volunteer for African Road, it doesn’t get much better than this: Pulling up to the Togetherness Cooperative in person for the first time, feeling the breeze, seeing the view, smelling the farm, and knowing it really is real. On Tuesday, I was...
