Assisting Indigenous Ministries
MAY 2026
SHARING THE GOSPEL
THROUGH SEWING CENTERS
“A time to rend, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.” (Ecclesiastes 3:7)
Understanding the importance
In many rural villages in countries like Nepal, women have traditionally been excluded from, or limited in, receiving a formal education or participating in the workforce. Tailoring offers a marketable skill to these women, providing them the opportunity to help support their families. In fact, this is often the only income for a mother and her children!
Without a way to earn money, many girls and women are at danger of being trafficked by dangerous elements
in society who sell them into a life of servitude or even outright slavery. Widows, abandoned wives, lower-caste
women, or women from minority groups typically face severe economic marginalization.
PROJECT GOAL
Project Cost : $30,000
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AIM International seeks a total of $30,000 that will be used to help women and girls gain the needed skills to support themselves or share the burden of household expenses.
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The Widow’s Mite (alias) will be continuing its successful SaLT (Skill and Leadership Training) residential program in July. A total of 121 women and girls, mostly from remote villages, have completed the program since its inception. This grant will allow 15 more girls to join SaLT this summer, thus offering them the opportunity to learn a life-changing skill. The Widow’s Mite’s goal is to “equip the vocational training participants to be able to use the trade skills and apply them in a business to sustain themselves. Vocational training is the best alternative to aid support ...”
The training runs for five months and features 38 lessons. Some of the participants of SaLT show extraordinary promise and take additional training to become instructors themselves. This helps the program become self-perpetuating. And, of course, students also have daily devotions, prayer sessions, and Bible studies where they learn about the Lord Jesus Christ and His love for mankind. This is the central purpose of all The Widow’s Mite does through SaLT and its other projects!
This is a vital, much-needed project that we hope to fund soon ... it begins in less than two months. Not only is this tailoring training life-changing for the women and girls involved, it can also be life-saving!
The grant will also be used to fund projects by another ministry which opens sewing training to non-Christian women as a means of evangelism. These projects are non-residential ... the women come to the ministry center for several hours each day. At the end of training, each woman is awarded her own sewing machine. Plus, the grant will purchase a loom for making Nepali cloth to be used in the training. And like The Widow’s Mite training, these projects will include prayer and sharing the Gospel. We pray earnestly that this project helps many women
put their faith in Jesus Christ!
This project will impact God’s kingdom in Nepal!
Nepal: 89% of the population of Nepal is considered
unreached. That means over 26 million people have yet
to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ. Nepal is home to 195
people groups, only 9 of these people groups have
professing Christians. The largest religions in Nepal are
Hinduism (71.8%) and Islam (12.3%).
You can give to this project by check:
Make checks payable to AIM International,
mail to PO Box 4428, Charlottesville, VA 22905.
Or give securely on-line: click on the "Contribution" button.
CURRENT APPEALS
URGENT NEED
