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Category: Empowerment

  • From a full day’s work to an hour’s labor.

    From a full day’s work to an hour’s labor.

    In Fengehun Village, traditional palm oil processing was a day-long, labor-intensive task. With new processing machinery, the community has boosted production from 3 bottles per day to 10 bottles per hour.

  • Empowering Local Leaders Is Sustainable Change

    Empowering Local Leaders Is Sustainable Change

    When I think back over the past decade of my work in Sierra Leone's care reform movement, one thing has become increasingly clear: true, sustainable change is not delivered from the outside in, it grows from the inside out.  And at the center of that growth are local leaders, men and women who understand their…

  • Lessons from the Empowerment Shift.

    Lessons from the Empowerment Shift.

    Empowerment is not giving people what we think they need; it’s creating space for them to shape their own future In Emmanuel Nabieu’s new book, The Empowerment Shift: A Transformational Guide to Transitioning from Residential Care to Family Care (available on Amazon), he explores why moving from institutional orphanage care to family and community-based care is not…

  • Village Partnership Family Strengthening Curriculum

    Village Partnership Family Strengthening Curriculum

    illage Partnership Family Strengthening Welcome Curriculum: Facilitation Guide

  • HCW holds information session on transformation

    Day One. 1/28/2018 Back row: Darlene Armendariz and Tina DeBoeser (Ebenezer UMC), Mohamed Nabieu (CRC Director), Kim Nabieu (HCW staff), Karen Hall (Ebenezer UMC), Melody Curtiss (HCW director). Seated in front: Dr. Cynthia Horner (HCW board) and Janie Williams (Ebenezer UMC.) Helping Children Worldwide held an information meeting on the CRC Transformation on Sunday, January…

  • Mercy operating wing construction is moving along!

    Check out these photo of the progress on Mercy Hospital’s operating room wing. Construction is scheduled to be completed by early summer. We will keep you posted!