Daughters of Destiny and Young Mums
The skills learned are transformative, and the opportunity to build a supportive community of peers alongside the local church, empowers the young mums to eliminate their future reliance on outside support.
Naomi's Daughters
The programme also reaches the local community through regular large group training, one-on-one household follow-ups, health education and HIV testing along with pre and post-test counselling. These initiatives are designed to target the deeply engrained stigmas associated with HIV/AIDS – judgments that keep people from being tested and treated in the first place.
Women's Prayer Group
At the centre of a slum largely divided by tribe, language, and religion, JENGA’s Thursday morning prayer breakfast is a unique gathering that erases boundaries and cultivates unity. This programme has created a space where women usually separated by cultural circumstance come together over tea and chapatti to connect and support each other in their shared struggles.
Not feeling comfortable to attend formal church, many of these women still desire and value the importance of having a safe place to offer and receive prayer. The depth of relationships formed have spoken volumes to other locals, and increasingly men and children join the women in an ever growing example of unlikely, yet transformative, community.
Maiden Ministries
Maiden Ministries, designed to combat these negative trends, is connecting young married couples with older, more established members of the community. They are provided with encouragement and tools to help build healthy relationships with their spouses. Young women come together to discuss their struggles over common issues such as money, sex, or parenting. Through training and individual (or couples) counselling, JENGA is empowering these women to also find their own solutions.