Grand Valley Magazine Summer 2014 - (Page 23)

Making a Difference: SowHope in Action Bangladesh Trafﬁcking Prevention Program The project targets six provinces of Bangladesh where an average of 50 girls a day are trafficked across the border into India and Pakistan. The two-year community training project will bring much needed awareness of the problem to roughly 10,000 people. Democratic Republic of the Congo Birthing Center In the DRC, a group of women has built a birthing center. They received funding from SowHope to better equip the center, specifically a delivery table and solar lighting. About 75 babies a month are delivered at the center. courtesy photos Tailoring Project for Rape Victims Microloan Group SowHope helps fund ASDI, a women's empowerment organization in the eastern DRC, to help the Goma Women's Tailoring Project. The program hopes to improve the lives of rape victims and young mothers by teaching them tailoring skills. Women's Social Civic Training Center Funds are being provided by SowHope to develop women's social activites throughout the region. Organizers want to build a social activity center where classes on women's health and counseling sessions for women in need could be held. Uganda Rwanda Literacy and Vocational Training for AIDS victims Franciscan nuns have been given funds by SowHope to assist vulnerable young women who have AIDS by placing them in support groups and teaching them to read, write, and do basic math. They will also learn how to make a living as seamstresses. Women who have previously worked with SowHope are expanding their small, but successful microfinance network, in which small sums of money are loaned to women to start businesses that will help support their families. The two-year project will fund microloans for 90 women. 23 www.gvsu.edu Grand Valley Magazine http://www.gvsu.edu

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Grand Valley Magazine Summer 2014

Table of Contents
Campus News
Fall Arts Celebration
Athletics
Donor Impact
Sustainability
Research
Q&A Karen Gipson
A seat at the table
Students dig program
Deployment to enrollment
Seeing double
Off the path
Arts
Alumni News

Grand Valley Magazine Summer 2014