what's up beautiful people oh welcome to the dr joy show your prescription for total wellness and i am your host dr joy today is going to be part of a segment of empowering women across the globe now i have two special guests with me one you've seen before and another one is needle and let me tell you where she comes from far far away yes the democratic republic of congo whew but before we get started you know what we do on a dr joy show we take it down with three deep breaths are you ready inhale exhale feel great and i'm so excited i want to welcome the dr elsie mckee welcome back because you are in part one and you kicked this off sometime last year twenty seventeen right and i want to all the way from across the globe thank you so share a little bit about you tell me a little bit about your in the press dong to talk about violence against we men in africa so how did you get involved like what what made you start warming cradle of  everywhere where men are victim of violence so very decided women to come and to share how churches have been involved it overcome violence against women how long ago has your organization been in existence how very lives when selfs and you build their you you build their self esteem in the process yes you empower them in the process so that was the first thing but then there were other things that they learned within your process for women that fact that is he a huge young many women have been affected how many women have been tested and then how many have you supported through this process  ok so do you have a particular story that you would like to share about the women the years i can share maybe two stories ok congo to pay school fees for orphans to support the sewing school to provide food because in the economic situation right now many people are simply dying of hunger what is the website  w woman cradle of abundance dot org wonderful wonderful any i know that you're here until a couple of more days and i'm so honored to actually have you on  joy show what events do you have planned during your stay here and then what events do you have planned in twenty te the main event that we have had was actually elector that she gave last week and it will be posted on the princeton seminary website for anyone who would like to hear it african women extraordinaire  symposium last friday and one woman he was one of the main speakers so that was our big event for this particular visit and we are hoping to have a concert in the  fall to raise money for the next stage of the one center project which will be actually helping them finish the furnishings but also they have a farm right outside can chaucer to raise food so that they will be able to feed the members of the community as well and sell the rest of the produce for income and so we are hoping to get be able to build a little house at the farm so that when they go out to work they can stay for several days they have because it's a distance to go back so that's one of our our next projects so elsie you mention that moment monique was part of the prince the seminary so what what's the web say where people can hear her speech the website is princeton theological seminary the conference is called african women extraordinaire ok i'm nicknamed it to be all conference oh that's great and it happens every other year and this year it was last friday march sixteenth and there were two speakers stuck so you also said that there's a concert where is that concert going to be we haven't established the venue yet so where can people find information of coming information about that about the concert on our website please ok wonderful wonderful wonderful here beautiful colors and these are made from the ladies that are in the school wow ok and then you also have the dresses that you're quilt a tie dyed quilt one of twice the size you see there but it's folded over oh it is it see you know while i know some people were there would probably want to take that and they would frame it and put it on a wall because i'm so so beautiful now what's special about your fabric well one of the very practical special things about it is that you can drop it in the washing machine and take it out and hang it up and then some of it my has to be ironed but some of it doesn't have to be ard just put it back on really so no giant cleaning no dry clean well that is also so again where ken folks get these items well as i say we have an  site which is on etsy of course but we also have a link from our website a woman cradle of abundance dot org and our store shops ok yes and we also are very happy to do fair trade markets so if someone would like to invite us to a community activity we actually will be displaying things at km university ok next month all right so please come and visit our booth and we do other fair trade markets if we are invited to to bring this is only a small selection we have jewelry we have all kinds of clothes yes really lots of pretty things so back to  come and ask about my wonderful friends and i went back later oh my goodness i can't i'm just so honored to have you here you have no idea so but i wanted thank you for being a guest on the dr joy show and then q l c for arranging all of this because i know that it was it was no small feat to get my monique here so you keep doing what you're doing and you keep them pairing these women that is she has written really she's taped it and i've transcribed it so one of the things she's doing right now is checking the manuscript and we hope to have her story available we think by next year oh that would all right do it in parallel there's inspire others because the greatest gift is to give to someone else until next time be blessed stay healthy