A LWML grant in the amount of $6,386 was graciously awarded to LWML member Cindy Jurgensen of Christ the King Lutheran Church, Memphis, and presented on January 5th, 2025, by Christine Acomb, LWML West Tennessee Zone president. The grant was requested for the Tanzania Deaconess Home for young women impacted by albinism. This ministry provides security, food, lodging, business education and vocational training for young women with albinism. It will allow the Deaconess Home to train 12 young women for 6 months. The modest home does not have electricity or indoor plumbing, but they are taught skills to survive and become self-sufficient and at graduation each young lady receives her own sewing machine and fabric.
Security and shelter are vital for these albino women to protect them from ongoing threats against their lives. Still to this day, witchdoctors teach that the body parts of albinos are necessary to bring luck into their lives, thus they are constantly at risk of dismemberment, or death.
This program at the Deaconess House provides a safe path for their lives.
In the presentation photo: CTK Senior Pastor Mark Goble, Mike Jurgensen, Cindy Jurgensen, Christine Acomb, LWML West Tennessee Zone President, CTK Associate Pastor Matt Lynch
Deaconess House
Cindy with a graduate
