• How To Help

    Women Lifting Women

    During my recent trip to Africa a priest explained that undergarments are very expensive there and owning them is out of reach for most poverty stricken African women.  In fact, the African women that do own them are considered to be more independent and assertive, they have a degree of prestige and men are less likely to assault these women. After returning from a visit to John Paul School in Chelekura, Uganda several of my women friends and I were discussing what they could do on a local level to help the students in Chelekura and African women in general, thus “Women Lifting Women” was born. Taylor and Lori Garner,…