Stories of Transformation: Adama

MEET ADAMA.

As a woman with a disability, Adama’s life had been filled with struggle and isolation. Ridicule and mockery were present most days, and the thought of providing for her children was overwhelming. However, when she began attending the Transformation Training class, which was filled with women in her same situation, she found community and began to have hope for a better future. Each class provided her with information and knowledge she never dreamed she could learn. In the fourth week of class, they had a lesson about how to succeed in business. Taking the knowledge she had obtained in class, Adama went to visit a woman she knew in a nearby village. She knew that this woman had succeeded in business for herself, and hoped to replicate the same type of business. Adama shared her desire to learn the business from this woman. Instead of laughing at Adama and dismissing her, the woman listened to Adama’s plan for how she hoped to provide for her children by having an honest business. The kind businesswoman taught Adama how to make traditional soap. With her new soap-making skills and the business knowledge she learned in class, Adama started her own soap-making business. She later shared with her class that she is now making a profit from her selling of soap, and she is able to provide for her children. She thanks God for Women of Hope Sierra Leone and the knowledge they taught her through Transformation Training.

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