Exciting News!

This week marks a major milestone in the advancement of the Beauty for Ashes initiative. For one year we have been tirelessly working through frustrations and obstacles to come to this point.  As of last Wednesday we have employed our first set of ladies in the first of eight manufacturing sites across Bangalore.  Training for these 8-14 women will begin this Wednesday and every week thereafter until we launch the center into full time manufacturing approximately two months from now.  This year has been a trying time, as it would be with any business start up. The complication of running a business that manufactures products in Bangalore but sells internationally has been beyond anyone’s imagination.  After months of problem solving, brainstorming, resourcing, researching, and banging our head against walls, we have begun purchasing from reliable sources and looking into the initial steps of import/export licenses.  While this is our ultimate goal we have formulated business strategies that have enabled us to begin selling jewelry in residential party settings.  These Jewelry parties will function as our primary way of both promoting jewelry sales as well as raising awareness of the plight of widow’s in India.  These parties spread vision and understanding, while encouraging those who live in plenty to support an unappreciated and mistreated demographic of women.  By hosting a jewelry party, essentially the employment and discipleship of these women is made possible.  Not only does it help to facilitate and generate financial income for these women, but it also enables the employment that leads to their salvation and spiritual growth.  In addition to the spiritual benefits that are reaped by the program, the proceeds from any party will go back to paying each woman a fair income.  This income will put food on their table, clothes on their children’s back, school books in their backpacks, and brings a sense of pride and self worth that is beyond any monetary value. We can already see the joy and excitement rising in their faces as they realize that they will be a part of something different.  Through this program, they are enabled to see themselves and their prayers as something valuable and precious.  As these women are taught their true identity, they will come to realize more and more that they are in fact instruments of change.  We as a staff are excited to be witnesses to an expansion not only of the Beauty for Ashes enterprise, but also of the Kingdom of God.  

If you would be willing or interested in hosting a party this summer or sometime in the fall feel free to facebook message or email me at Tiffany@KingdomFoundations.org.