The six women who just graduated from Golden Hands' Advanced Seamstress course define perseverance. Normally this Life Skills course requires eight months of training, but because of multiple COVID restrictions, it extended beyond a year. Finally, these hard-working...
Savings Group Allows Elena to Help Her Family By Maryann Dagdag, Unity Savings Group Adviser, Pathway For Hope Staff When the Philippines was hit by coronavirus, millions of Filipinos lost their jobs. This included Elena’s husband and their children. Pandemic policies...
Barber Overcomes COVID Hurdles Through Pay-It-Forward Program Yman was stuck. The 23-year-old was studying and working at a barber shop during COVID and it wasn't going well. He couldn't use public transportation to get to work or school. In fact, the barber shop was...
The women from the Quito recycling community who participate in ER programs have come such a long way. In the early years of our work in the Quito Dump, most of the women recyclers had dropped out of school and had little education. They focused on gleaning ...
Stephen and Anne Haag are not your typical missionaries. They got into short-term missions with ER later in life and found that the experiences spoke to their hearts in a profound manner. They realized had a passion to serve others, but where and how? During a trip to...
Fast Stat: Nearly 100+ women and girls have learned livelihood skills by passing the Golden Hands Sewing Training Course and are now able to help their families generate income. Michie arrived at ER’s sewing and pattern-making class fraught with fear. She was shy and...
By Walt Walkowski, ER Global Impact Coordinator Sadly, abandonment, abuse, hunger, thirst, shelter, deaths, typhoons, fires, flooding, earthquakes and disease are prominent traumas faced by the vulnerable people of the Philippines. Because ER and our partners operate...
Story update: Fast forward less than one year, and the guys in the Quito Men's Program at the Quito Dump are producing some stellar furniture. Check out this set below. Notice the recycled pallet wood. How awesome is this? ER's Pete Emery shares: "We delivered our...
While ER helps hundreds of vulnerable women annually by providing livelihood skills, we focus our newsfeed on just a few so readers can learn their stories. The following story updates Gina's journey, which we introduced in fall 2017. By Anne Benavidez, ER Asia (Oct....
ER partner Batang Matinik runs the Algang Nanay piggery project to produce inspiring outcomes of changed lives in Quezon City, Philippines. Originally launched to help women generate income by raising pigs (see below), Algang Nanay (Mother’s Care) has helped turn one...
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