Welcome to our new website!  It’s been a long time in coming.  We are grateful to Randy at Starry Night Communications for driving the project across the finish line! I hope you find this to be a site you will visit often as a place to stay informed, share your thoughts,  expand your understanding of issues of [...]

We will hear from Kari Costanza, Comunications Director for World Vision International as she shares her experiences in the Horn of Africa reporting on the famine that has left hundreds of thousands of refugees on the verge of starvation, and has already killed nearly 30,000 children. In preparation, we will be reading Ms. Costanza’s essay, [...]

July 2011 The women and bees of Utethyo wa Ngokomi Womens Group have been working hard this past year.  Their recent honey harvest of over 40 hives produced close to 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) of honey.  This project not only helped purchase water tanks for the 20 group members and their families but is having an ongoing positive [...]

Make plans to join us Monday, October 3, 2011 as we kick off a new season of WEI’s Book Forum and Fellowship.

Focus: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Speaker: Reneé Stearns
Book: A Thousand Sisters by Lisa Shannon

July 2011 The much anticipated day arrived and thirteen, 8,000 liter water tanks were delivered to an overjoyed Kawendo Women’s Group and their families.  The Kawendo group, a  daughter group of Ngokomi, one of WEI’s original groups, is the latest to receive water harvesting systems matched by WEI.  This is a very special day for [...]

“A Thousand Sisters”
October 3, 2011

The focus of our first forum will be the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country where more than 1000 women are raped every day, where the simple act of walking to her field or fetching water makes a woman the target of warring militias [...]