The Beginning

The first God 4 Girls’ project was in Pointe Noire, The Republic of Congo.  Girls, some as young as 5, were being sold in the red-light district at night by desperate family members with no prospects for employment. Girls of the community were not educated and left illiterate. Most residents have no utilities. Clothing stores are also rare, and most garments seamstress-made.  With a shortage of seamstresses, the market was just waiting!

In partnership with resident missionaries and the non-profit, Clear Target, a two-story school was built! Students graced the halls of a school for the first time!  Girls embraced the freedom that Christ came to give, and wholeness for a promising future!  Their medical needs were addressed and a diversified garden planted to teach them how to grow produce.  They began reading and writing.  A sewing lab was established and Women’s Ministries shipped in treadle sewing machines. The students learned to make product and sold them in the school boutique.  Eventually, girls began bringing their own treadle machine home so the family could have their own small business.  In turn, the families of students stopped selling their daughters!  

Today the program is overseen by the indigenous church in Congo.  Glory to God!