Last month we shared the exciting news with you that the Next Steps curriculum has been translated into Swahili! This month we have more exciting news for you: Next Steps is also now available in Kirundi – the official language of Burundi. But even more exciting is the impact this curriculum is already having for…
From the very beginning, we have written our curriculums with the hope that they will be translated into local languages and adapted to local cultures and learning styles. To see this happening in the past year has been a dream come true! So far in 2021, our Next Steps Curriculum has been translated into Swahili and…
As countries reopen more and more throughout Europe and North America, it is easy to feel that the COVID-19 pandemic is almost over. But across the world, and particularly in East Africa, the opposite is true. Rather than opening, countries are going back into lockdown. Rather than celebrating a return to normality, they are wondering…
This month we received an enormous gift – a visit from John and Jacinta in Portland! While in town to celebrate a wedding, we had the opportunity to meet with them and hear stories first-hand about what this year has been like for them in Tanzania. At the end of our time, John told a…
Loom Staff Member Eugenie Adamah-Tassah reflects on a recent CCS testimony, growing up in Cameroon, and her own role as a parent and mentor. Teaching biblical principles that support raising children in a safe and loving environment has been one of the driving forces behind Loom’s Celebrating Children Seminars (CCS). As I reflect on…
“Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you…” These words, written from Paul to his friends in Thessaloniki sometime in the first century, have taken on new meaning for us here in the twenty-first. They embody the way we encounter the power and wonder of leaders around the world. From…
“This teaching has changed me.” Over and over again, this is the feedback that Celebrating Children Workshop (CCW) Alumni are hearing as they run their own seminars across East Africa. Since October 2020, 16 facilitators have successfully launched 28 seminars in various locations in East Africa. These 16 facilitators have trained 1311 beneficiaries – pastors,…
“Everything that I am doing now has changed my life.” – Gemma, Vuka Small Business Owner It has been one year since Loom launched the Vuka Small Business Start-Up Course with a training in Arusha, Tanzania. Since then, twenty-eight leaders have completed the course and have launched their own small business in their community.…
Bosco Tuli is a social innovator working near Lira, Uganda in the wake of Northern Uganda’s civil war. His goal is to give the youth of Uganda an opportunity to rebuild their future through education and job skills training. Northern Uganda is recovering from over two decades of armed conflict, which resulted in the displacement…
In each community Loom engages, we discover extraordinary people. The struggle of their lives has created in them a rare power and hope. They are willing to face head on “how things have always been done” and to disrupt fatalistic value systems and thinking to make authentic impact. Yet the reality of their vision is…
