Five young mums on their way to better futures 🥳
- kimbilious
- 6 days ago
- 2 min read
Earlier this month, 5 teens graduated from Kimbilio's Young Mums project. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Kimbilio's Young Mums project provides free hairdressing and nails training to teenage mothers who come from the streets to Kimbilio's outreach center and are a good fit for the course. Kimbilio provides lodging to the teens and their children while the teens are following the course. Young Mums gives the teens the opportunity to leave behind a life of sexual exploitation on the streets and provide a better environment in which their children will grow up. Each five month course has five young mums enrolled, and at the end of the course each mother is given a kit of supplies to establish her own hair and nails business. Kimbilio follows the teens' progress after graduation.
Each of the 5 teen graduates has a painful street story. Take the situation of one of this cohort's young mums, Divine. She lost her parents at the age of 3. She then lived many years at Catimel, a Catholic home for girls. She did preschool and primary school there. Then, of her own choice, she decided to leave Catimel for the streets. She began coming to the Kimbilio outreach center, but declined Kimbilio's offer to move into the Transit Home for girls. She vanished for years. Then, she came back to the outreach center with her baby. Divine is now 19 years old and her baby girl, Claudia, is 13 months old. Having completed the course, Divine will now pursue work in her trade possibly in collaboration with other young mums in her cohort.
You can feel the hope in the slide show below. The beaming young woman with her diploma in the second photo is Divine. If you're interested in sponsoring a cohort for the Young Mums project, we would love to hear from you at info@congochildrentrust.org.
