Serving Somali Women

ECC director, Ehud Gachugu; Volunteer Community Facilitator and teaching assistant, Zahra Aziz, and Erica & Aaron Kenny.

Today marked the beginning of a new ESL (English as a Second Language)Program that we are launching with the Eastleigh Community Centre (ECC). The program comes out of need expressed by the Eastleigh Mother's Self Help Group that formed last month who saw their lack of English as a primary barrier to finding a livelihood and financial independence for their families. In partnership with ECC, we are moving forward with these vulnerable mothers to help them with achieving basic levels of literacy and fluency in English. The ECC has generously provided us with a classroom and has registered the women into their vocational program free of charge.

It is our shared dream that through their participation in the ESL classes and the ECC program, the members of the women's self help group will develop the vocational ability, micro enterprise skills, confidence, and support needed to provide for their families. It is an exciting time for Somali ministry as we journey forward with these women in faith.

Erica registering a Somali mother for the new

ESL classes at the Eastleigh Community Centre

In Prayer:

* Please remember the White Rock team as they continue to serve the Dadaab Community with our colleagues Yattani and Andai.

* Pray for Paul and Kelly Carline as they share this summer with Paul's family in New Brunswick, as Paul's father Peter Carline undergoes treatment for cancer.

* Please pray for our friend Yusuf as he and several of the Somali women who had been in Erica's Friday women's group have come together to form a community organization. Together they are working to combat clanism and the roots of conflict within the Somali community in Eastleigh. Please pray for them as they work for peace!