Featuring: Renew Project
Each week I will be featuring an important world project. This week is one is near to me in more than one way.
RenewProject: Creating Hope for Women
I started working for World Relief in High School. Each summer I would help in the preschool while the Refuge parents took ESL and job classes. What is a refugee you ask? A Refugee is someone who as been displaced due to economic hardship, war or famine. Many of the refugees we worked with came from Africa, although some came from Russia. There will soon be many from the Congo due to the fighting there.
Some of my favorite stories include:
During our morning we had circle time. I often got to lead in sharing a color of the day and a letter. Then we would sing. If you looked at the circle you would find each adult had a preschooler in their lap since some of them were known to crawl away. On this particular morning I was holding a little girl. Once we had finished singing I looked down to find a wall of poop coming from the back of the little girl in my lap. I will never forget the wall of poop that included corn and the like, from their African diet. I still laugh at that one.
In the afternoon we only had a few students so we would take them to the park or to get ice cream at The Stoop (a Wheaton College hang out). The little boy we had with us was only 4 and was new to our country. The first time he had ice cream he made the most unforgettable face. Between the shock of the cold and the surprise of the creamy substance we couldn't stop smiling as we continued to feed him, only to encounter the face again and again.
Now, 10 years later World Relief decided to start a sewing project for the refuge women. This kind of this is very popular right now and it's a great way for them to have work. I have purchased a few items including a coin purse and chi mix.
When I got my own place in Downers Grove I knew I had to get pillows. They let me pick my own fabric and then made them, pillows and all.
Their major sellers are their purses. In fact, you can support the women by purchasing one online:
Click on the picture or the link below to go directly to the site and Create Hope for Women, as is RenewProject's goal.
http://www.renewproject.org/collections
Are there Refugees around where you live? There are many in Dupage, IL, Clarkston, GA (where I went last summer), and Houston, TX. These are locations where World Relief has their hubs. Comment and let me know if you know of, or work with Refugees.
RenewProject: Creating Hope for Women
I started working for World Relief in High School. Each summer I would help in the preschool while the Refuge parents took ESL and job classes. What is a refugee you ask? A Refugee is someone who as been displaced due to economic hardship, war or famine. Many of the refugees we worked with came from Africa, although some came from Russia. There will soon be many from the Congo due to the fighting there.
Some of my favorite stories include:
During our morning we had circle time. I often got to lead in sharing a color of the day and a letter. Then we would sing. If you looked at the circle you would find each adult had a preschooler in their lap since some of them were known to crawl away. On this particular morning I was holding a little girl. Once we had finished singing I looked down to find a wall of poop coming from the back of the little girl in my lap. I will never forget the wall of poop that included corn and the like, from their African diet. I still laugh at that one.
In the afternoon we only had a few students so we would take them to the park or to get ice cream at The Stoop (a Wheaton College hang out). The little boy we had with us was only 4 and was new to our country. The first time he had ice cream he made the most unforgettable face. Between the shock of the cold and the surprise of the creamy substance we couldn't stop smiling as we continued to feed him, only to encounter the face again and again.
Now, 10 years later World Relief decided to start a sewing project for the refuge women. This kind of this is very popular right now and it's a great way for them to have work. I have purchased a few items including a coin purse and chi mix.
When I got my own place in Downers Grove I knew I had to get pillows. They let me pick my own fabric and then made them, pillows and all.
This chair was purchased at a garage sale in Wheaton
after following a sign that said "Vintage."
What can I say I'm a sucker for vintage. $20.
Click on the picture or the link below to go directly to the site and Create Hope for Women, as is RenewProject's goal.
http://www.renewproject.org/collections
Are there Refugees around where you live? There are many in Dupage, IL, Clarkston, GA (where I went last summer), and Houston, TX. These are locations where World Relief has their hubs. Comment and let me know if you know of, or work with Refugees.
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