Kind HeartsCopyright 2009 Matt Mortensen
At a local event I had the great opportunity to meet the women who run Dorca's Widows, Carol Vogt, Lisa Tschetter and Kari Miller. The Dorcas Widows Fund is an NGO based in the United States that supports the Dorcas Widows Ministry in Kampala, Uganda. The Dorcas Widows Ministry is a support group for widows who have lost their husbands due to the war in Northern Uganda, HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB, or other diseases.
Kari, a teacher, spends six months a year with the women in Kampala by taking unpaid leave from her job. She sold her house and tells me, "I finally found what I am supposed to be doing!" I am so jealous of her and her group!
The women make jewelry from single-use paper materials like advertisements and then dye them to the beautiful colors so evocative of African cultures. The photo above depicts the jewelry and some of the other items sold in the USA to directly benefit The Dorcas Widows. You can read more about the dedicated women who started this fund in the Star Tribune.
