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The mission of Wings For Change is to teach children and adults to treat and care for their body, mind, and spirit while respecting others and their environment that God created.
The mission has not changed, but the programs available have expanded as needs were addressed. Wings educates, cares, and desperately seeks change for the souls in Africa.
Absolutely! What started as a project 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 expanded. Wings soon taught boys 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 Wings shed light on suicide during the COVID lockdown.
What started as supplying "pads to the Congo" has become life-altering and saving knowledge and skills for holy and healthy relationships!
The girls learned how their bodies functioned, and the 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 were previously disallowed in school because of their inability to control bleeding during their periods. This training was enormously successful, and more schools, villages, and countries asked for it.
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 for 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 the child, the frightened and confused teen was never aware that a sex act coujld result in a pregnancy!
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