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| Esneyda at her sewing machine |
It will be good to hear the updates in a couple of weeks when we are in Balgue again.
Esneyda Morales
Vice-president of the church Women’s Group, and of CHE in Balgue.
Aged 33, married, with 2 children.
It all started with an invitation to church.
Then I was chosen to go to a training in another community. Pastor Cecilio and I went. Then at the next training we learned to make ear-rings. This sewig class to make bags is the third training I have had.
I like CHE - it helps people. It attracts people who like to learn, and motivates them. A lot of women don’t work, and they don’t have any skills. Their day-to-day work is boring. So the CHE classes give them new opportunities.
I work as a dressmaker, and I have my clientele - that’s important.
I came to know Jesus in Sunday School, when I was 12 years old. My father is a pastor.
We have our own house, but we rent it out, and live here with my parents to help them. Otherwise, they’d be on their own here.
Balgue is not very developed. There are 4 small hotels. people like the work that comes along with the tourism, for example, in the hotels. There is a secondary school, a primary school. There is a project, Hand of Friendship, and my mother is the community coordinator. There is money from the UK and Germany to teach women to cook things, like bread, that they can sell.
God always helps me, blesses me. My vision, or what I am most interested in, is that women learn so that they can get ahead in life - that they become friends of the gospel, and are converted.
The following photo shows Esneyda, and another CHE worker, with the draw string bags that are made by girls at Cheltenham High School, Pa. They contain sewing kits for the women to use to make the bags in the class. The girls also include messages, and many of the women send notes back to the girls.
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