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“I went to school through grade six. Life was difficult But then, when I joined up with ADRA and started making
growing up. I grew up in a home with a lot of conflict. friends with others in the group and working with the
children, everything changed for me. Suddenly life had
I am married with one child. Before I started with ADRA I meaning, purpose, and hope.
was a farmer. I heard that ADRA would be giving training in
agriculture, so I joined up. When some of the people from I never thought that I would ever become the person that I
ADRA saw me so engaged in the training they invited me to am today. In the past, I believed that I was a woman that was
become a volunteer facilitator myself. At first I worked with weak, a person of no value. This past year of working with
the children’s group. Now I’m a commune supervisor. ADRA has changed all of that for me. I now know that I am a
person of great value. I am now doing things I never thought
Being part of this group has been really great for me. I used I could before. ADRA has taught me to be a trainer and I am
to suffer from a lot of stress and depression. I didn’t have a now facilitating and leading out in groups. I now have
lot of friends and life seemed hopeless. I didn’t have a good confidence in myself and believe in my own ability to
marriage. My husband drank a lot and spent a lot of time accomplish even more things in the future.”
gambling. We never understood each other. I would be upset
and very unhappy. I even took medication for what I thought
were psychological problems.
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