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LoveKnitting

A GLOBAL CRAFT COMMUNITY SUPPORTING WOMEN SURVIVORS OF WAR

We are so pleased that LoveKnitting, a world-wide community for knitters, crocheters and sewers, are supporting Women for Women International and the women we serve. LoveKnitting’s Yarn Collective are supporting our work by supporting our Stand With Her training programme. The Yarn Collective works with independent designers to create yarns in a range of beautiful colours. A trio of women designers launched the Yarn Collective - Melanie Berg from Germany, Bristol Ivy from the USA and Carol Feller from Ireland. Through the Yarn Collective’s activity, LoveKnitting have raised enough to support a woman from the Democratic Republic of Congo through our year-long training programme. Thanks to their generosity, LoveKnitting’s Stand With Her sister Sikitu will learn how to earn and save money, improve her family’s health and make her voice heard at home and in the community.

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Our partnership with LoveKnitting reflects the synergy between the work of Women for Women International and our partners. Through our year-long training programme, women can choose a craft as their vocational skill: from knitting and tailoring to embroidery.

Faith, a Women for Women International - Nigeria programme participant, learnt knitting as her vocational skill. Photo: Monilekan
Faith, a Women for Women International - Nigeria programme participant, learnt knitting as her vocational skill. Photo: Monilekan

After graduation, we started a business together. We knit the clothes here in our workshop and then sell them at local markets.

Faith, a widow with three daughters from Nigeria, graduated from our training programme and set up her own knitting business. Because she has only daughters, her husband’s family will not allow her to inherit his possessions.

Faith says, “Being a single mother is very difficult. My hope for the future is to provide a good education for my daughters. I will also teach them how to knit, so they have a skill.”

Faith uses the profits from her knitting business to pay school fees for her daughters, and enjoys working together with her fellow graduates. “After graduation, we started a business together. We knit the clothes here in our workshop and then sell them at local markets. We like working together, it’s better than working alone.”

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