60 women who are widows benefit from a widow home donated by Vinod Patel foundation

Sixty women who are widows will benefit from a widow home that was donated to Almanah Hope Centre in Lautoka as a way to empower them.

The widow home was donated by Vinod Patel foundation in Teidamu, Ba earlier this month and it will be run by the Lifebread Stay Connected NGO.

The steel metal home for widows by the foundation will provide destitute women a place to stay, and will also help to alleviate their poor standard of living through developmental opportunities and training programs for underprivileged and disadvantaged women.

International Executive Director Lifebread Stay Connected Pastor Dr Raymond Moti says the widow home houses women from all cultural and religious backgrounds from single mothers to women from broken families and some with no formal education. 

Dr Moti expressed his gratitude to Vinod Patel foundation for their generous donation adding that projects like these can be done to encourage women to make a worthwhile and positive contribution to the community.

Dr Moti says the Centre will train women and give them skills so they can become self supporting.

He says the Centre has a separate accommodation, a training centre and a community kitchen.

25 women have graduated from the Centre so far and 6 women have found work already with the skills they were taught.