Place: Santiago, Dominican Republic
Trade: Carpentry Shop Project
Why: Empowering gifts, teaching skills and providing tools to use business as mission. This community helps restore peoples self worth by helping them see their value and gifts come to life. They have a holistic approach to helping develop and empower people to grow thriving businesses to serve the mission across the island and help both Dominicans and Haitians.
Partners: Go Ministries (gomin.org)
Completed: March 2016
Nakuru, Kenya in Africa | Carpentry Shop Project
Place: Nakuru, Kenya in Africa
Trade: Carpentry Shop Project
Why: Empowering gifts, teaching skills and providing tools to use business as mission. This is a community of over 220 orphans who are being loved, educated, and taught hands on skills to be able to use their unique gifts to serve the world. We provided an amazing state of the art carpentry shop where the children are learning and creating amazing pieces of furniture and selling them in the marketplace. They are also providing all the beds, tables, desks, etc.. for the orphanage.
Partners: Legacy Building (legacybuilding.com)
Completed: July 2014