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Our mission is to teach children and adults to treat and care for their body, mind, and spirit while respecting others, and the environment that God created.
Our mission has not changed but the programs available have expanded as needs were addressed. We continue to educate, care for, and desperately seek change for the beautiful souls in Africa and beyond.
What was hatched by a few former flight attendants who had an idea to help girls in one school in Jinja, Uganda with feminine hygiene products and an explanation of the female body and how God created it to function, has grown. Stigmas in their culture were addressed. They were taught that they were not cursed because they were female and that they were not dirty. They previously were disallowed in school because of their inability to control blood during their period. This training was enormously successful and more schools, villages, and countries asked for this training.
And there is more! Boys are now being taught about the male reproductive system. Adults and youth began to learn how babies were made, and how sexually transmitted infections were spread. Gender-based violence was addressed, and light was shed on suicide during COVID lockdown.
The mission is the same but what started as supplying “pads to the Congo” has become life-altering and saving knowledge and skills for HOLY and HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS!
When young girls were trafficked for sex for pay, often by their parents during COVID to feed the family, it became necessary to teach about ”the war with those who love you”, addressing domestic abuse and violence. WINGS taught women, men, children, and youth the description and methods of abuse, along with God's VALUE and love of them.
Pregnancies increased during COVID. Abortions were on the rise. In East Africa, abortions are not generally carried out in aseptic environments, but by witchdoctors, aka “herbalists” who gather and charge for toxic leaves to end the life of the child within the womb. Until WINGS exposed the truth about the reproductive system, and toxic abortions, which are proven to kill 50 to 51% of the mother and child, the frightened and confused teen was never aware that a sex act could result in a pregnancy!
Once the truth about human trafficking was learned, WINGS established a partnership with ANTI TRAFFICKING INTERNATIONAL (ATI) to teach Wings partners, and healthcare providers about the CRIME, abuse, and horror of the largest money-making CRIME in the world. Africans are some of the most victimized by sex, forced labor, and organ trafficking.
WINGS now teaches about SICKLE CELL INFECTION (SCI) to parents and sickened individuals who until recently believed their illness was due to a “curse” which they would go to a
“witchdoctor” to reverse or learn that it was not the result of a sexually transmitted disease that destroyed a marriage because of lack of information!
We are beginning to work with health agencies in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania to teach the facts about SCI. So far, our clinic trial of offering folic acid supplements and hydroxyurea that are prescribed by a physician and donated by WINGS FOR CHANGE has been enormously successful and youth are returning to school.
With mental health decline on the rise during the pandemic, WINGS addressed substance abuse, and recognition of trauma, especially as evidenced in children and teens. These were all very new concepts to those in East Africa!
Today, WINGS teaches about the effects of trauma on the body, the mind, and the spirit. WINGS teaches psychological first aid to a refugee camp in the DRC that houses refugees seeking rescue and safety in indigenous displaced people camps.
Please give and help us help them. Nowhere else on earth will you find more appreciative, and loving individuals. For little money, we empower those in Uganda, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Kenya the ability to carry out WINGS programs with great success. Help us save a generation through a Biblical worldview with knowledge about the human body, human sexuality, human trafficking, and most of all UNDERSTAND the human body that He created, and respect it. You can support through
In Christ Alone…… WINGS offers:
C = Classrooms are used to teach life science and destroy stigmas, whether is a building or a village for human trafficking awareness
H = Healthcare is taught, dispelling the continuation of myths and stigmas
A = Abuse is identified as wrong! Human value is recognized!
N = Nurturing is identified and taught to new teen mothers
G = Generational abuse, myths, and trauma are identified and addressed
E = EDUCATION can continue and flourish with decreased absenteeism and dropping out. Vocational schools are opening to offer the ability to gain skills thru WINGS FOR CHANGE support in Uganda and South Sudan.
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