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February Update from Daria in Guinea

February 7, 2012: We're putting the roof on our Sewing School!

Woontanara Aid is busy building a studio and small store front while constructing a stronger administration for its Sewing School. 

You met Mama M'Hawa in our last email, we hired her to prepare lunch for our workers. Mama M'Hawa enjoyed the first three years of her life, able to freely run and play.  At the age of three, she was struck with polio at night and by morning was unable to walk for two years. At the age of five, her passion and ambition prompted her to just get up and do it.

Over the past months, Mama M'Hawa has won our respect and we have invited her to join our staff as School Principal. She will also oversee a new project we are launching called Program Aide Handicapees (PAH).  This program invites people with handicaps and their families to use our studio and sewing machines to earn a living, even if they cannot afford supplies. PAH grantees will contribute a percentage of what they earn selling their products to help maintain our machines.

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Woontanara Aid aims to sustainably improve the lives of people in need in West Africa.

Reports from Guinee Expedition 2011-2012

Thanks to contributions from our sponsors, donors and volunteers, we are currently at work in Guinea furthering our Sewing School at the Home for People with Disabilities, our educational program for poor and orphaned children and other projects. Learn more >

Helping Poor and Orphaned Children

Woontanara Aid has been providing assistance to poor and orphaned children since 2006. Some of our orphaned children live with foster families who are not financially able  to enroll them in adequate schools. We  provide quality education for these orphaned children by paying for  their tuition, uniforms, school supplies and transportation. We also assist foster families by providing them with food and medical support. Learn more >

Home for People with Disabilities Sewing School

Woontanara Aid started a sewing school at the Home for People with Disabilities in March of 2010. Our sewing school started with five teenage girls, one sewing machine and one teacher, Mr. Alama Sangare.  We have recently brought in a second sewing machine and have more than doubled our enrollment!  Our students are young women whose mother and/or father have a physical handicap and are unable to work. Our future plans include creating a market place for our students to sell items they have made at the school. Learn more >