Just a little over six months ago in a tiny, rented room in Kitale town in western Kenya, a women’s vocational training center (Dorcas Hands) was started. We opened with a few sewing machines, a couple of volunteer teachers, some materials and three students. Today we have a professional tailoring teacher, a larger three-room facility in order to accommodate five new students, as well as the knitting machine, more sewing machines, and an overlock machine. Christine, one of the first three students, is just about to graduate. Elizabeth, the director of the school, reports that students “are celebrating and thanking me every day for coming up with Dorcas.” She says the women are literally transforming before her not only physically, but spiritually and emotionally as well.
