Empowered Youth Adopt Yakimi

$0 is what Zoe Empowers spent to help Yakimi’s family. Not because they didn’t matter. But because empowerment multiplies. Yakimi’s new beginning was made possible by business profits generated by youth who had once stood where Yakimi stood. Standing outside of Yakimi’s home in 2019, the air felt heavy with uncertainty. The house leaned slightly, […]

Dignity is Found When Paying it Forward: From a Traveler’s Perspective

High in the hills, in a village of Rwanda, Jeanie, Cheryl, Katherine and I sat in a small and tidy house listening to the stories of how four young men’s lives had been transformed through Zoe.  Samuel, Emmanuel, Daniel, and Ernest each took turns sharing how desperate their lives used to be. Similar themes of […]

Silent No More: Dorcas Finds Her Voice Through Forgiveness

Dorcas with her brothers

Impressive changes have manifested since Dorcas learned her child rights through ZOE. In the community, Dorcas has become well-known for speaking out about child rights, serving as paralegal outside of her grain shop business. She can be found standing in forums teaching others, especially young females, about their rights.