Our Life Skills Empowerment program at the Life Enrichment Center is equipping unemployed and underemployed adults in Norfolk, VA to be successful in the workplace! Five more people recently graduated from our January class there.

Debra is one of those. The middle-aged woman was recovering from the death of a child and needed motivation to begin again. A former elementary teacher, she came to class that first day with a debilitating sense of hopelessness and despair. She left with a brighter outlook on life and hope for her future!

With the help of mentors at the Life Empowerment Program, Debra began setting goals to become a licensed realtor by taking the national real estate exam as well as start a mail order business. She completed her week’s adventure with a mission statement that reads, “To model, inspire and demonstrate hopefulness for my community and everyone I come in contact with.”

So motivated by her experience, Debra wrote a letter saying, “Allow me the opportunity to share with you how much the program at your Life Enrichment Center has helped me. I came to the class all broken hearted, discouraged and feeling helpless. First, each of your staff members greeted me with love, smiles, and empathy. I know that none of you have had the tragic experience of loosing a child but you used whatever God gave you to minister to me. As a result, I now put God first again!

“The training sessions were excellent! They first showed me how important it is to plan for my own success. I now recognize that my successes lie in my daily routine. I have completed a real estate training session and a class to assist me in passing the national portion of the exam. Secondly, I'm writing my goals out each night as to what I want to accomplish on the following day towards developing my business.

“…Your staff and the members of my class were great! I'm busy doing the things that need to be done and I am no longer stuck in the helpless state of discouragement! I pray that all of your classes be as helpful to the new members as they were to me. Keep up the good work! I love you all!”

Make a Big Difference
Partners like you had a hand in helping Debra begin to heal and move forward. There are many more hopeless and hurting people around the world. Your gift of only $150 can help an unemployed father or mother in the USA begin the move from welfare to the workforce through our 12-week Life Skills Empowerment program. $50 can give a South American family enough livestock to be able to begin a profitable farm. And just $100 can train and equip a woman in Africa or Asia to be seamstress.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

This microenterprise venture is one of many Operation Blessing projects touching lives around the world. You can be a part of improving the quality of life for impoverished communities by supporting these and other life-changing programs.

 

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