Women Helping Widows and Orphans

When Jamal went to Salt Lake City and met with Sharon Eubanks last spring, she gave him a sample of a women's hygiene kit that has been developed for use in developing countries.  Jamal brought the sample back to Jordan and we are making plans to mass produce the kits for refugees and poor Jordanian women.

 We asked a group of local women who run a small sewing business to make a sample product for our approval.  The sewing group is a community based charity, run by Syrian, Palestinian and Jordanian widows and volunteers.  The sample products they made for us were very good quality.   We ordered 400 to be distributed to women in the area for them to test and give us feedback.

This group also runs 3 preschools for 250 local orphans called "Orphans Who Are Excellent in Everything."

 An orphan in Jordan is a child without a mother and a father.  Jamal explained that if a mother and father divorce and they marry someone else, their children also become orphans. Adoption is illegal here.

To produce income, The women also run a kitchen that produces food for sale in the local market.

The food is delicious.

 The leader of the staff remarked, "I have a lot of time, I like to do something good."

The little children are being taught values, good health habits, moral character and serving others.

 The poorest of the poor inside a Palestinian refugee camp.  The facilities we visited were old and needed repair but they were clean and neat.

 In one of the centers we observed a group of widows being taught to read.  We could see the hope in their faces as a "new world" was being opened up to them.
Today we experienced love in action.
We will meet with Jamal next week to talk about how we can assist the organization in other ways besides the sewing project.