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Hope amid oppression In 2003, some women from Kanombe began to meet together, determined to overcome the oppression and devastating poverty they each faced.
Since then, Solidarite has grown to 250 members and has joined with World Vision’s Kanombe Area Development Programme (ADP). A number of the members’ children are sponsored by New Zealanders through World Vision.
The group’s main aim is to overcome poverty, something each of the members have had personal experience with. Poverty leaves women with few options to provide for their families, meaning some resort to prostitution, often becoming infected with HIV. Determined to prevent this, members group together to learn skills such as pottery, tailoring, weaving, making curtains, crocheting, batik and carpentry; they sell their products at the local market. It is not all hard work though. Members dance together, providing an entertaining diversion from everyday realities. Anna Parsons, programme officer for World Vision New Zealand, recalls her visit to Solidarite: “As I walked towards the group meeting, a dance practice was being held outside. The dancing was so beautiful and so energetic, almost contagious!”
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TUBEHONEZA STORY ARCHIVE 2008 Building a better world for children Name changes but the good work continues HopeChild 2007 Hope amid oppression Snippets
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