The sewing school is run by Christians who want to make a positive difference for the most vulnerable in their community - as a practical witness of God's love in a country where Christians are often discriminated against and persecuted.
Miserable work
Zanib's father works as a day laborer and his mother works cleaning other people's homes. Because of her family's poverty, Zanib was sent to clean another family's home. But the people she worked for treated her very badly. So the next morning, she went back to her home.
Zanib says she just wants to learn the sewing trade because she doesn't want to work as a cleaner in poor people's homes.
The Danish European Mission has received numerous reports of poor women, especially from the Christian minority, working as cleaners in poor conditions for better-off families in Pakistan. These are jobs that sometimes involve degradation for the women. Working in such circumstances, women are very vulnerable and at risk of harassment and physical abuse.
That's why the Danish European Mission has invested in providing young women from Pakistan's impoverished areas with sewing training in a Christian context, giving them the opportunity to gain a new optimism and skills that can actually change their future, both spiritually and economically. Some of the vulnerable women also come from Muslim homes.
Zanib is now receiving training
Zanib is one of the lucky girls who is now receiving sewing lessons with support from Danish European Mission donors. A big thank you to everyone who supports the work in Pakistan. This means both helping the persecuted Christian minority and spreading the Gospel through the Christian workers in the country.
You can ensure that more women like Zanib can attend sewing school. It only costs 300 kr.
