Most requests come from Love INC. or from within the church. In East and Southern Africa, we are supporting a number of community-based justice education projects. This training helps to empower people to take action locally for justice. Grace is a community development worker with the Presbyterian Church in Malawi. At our justice workshop in December, we would see Grace approach her boss on her knees to pass him a hymnbook - in a cultural gesture that symbolizes respect.
Grace is a strong, but humble woman.
Grace told us that she learned a lot in the first Biblical Justice workshop that she attended last June. She grew in boldness to act on justice issues in her community. Grace and the women in her development group noted that the bore holes in their community were in poor repair. They found out that some local men had been sent for training on bore hole maintenance, but they were not doing their job. Because it is women's responsibility to fetch water, women are more affected by the lack of maintenance of the bore holes.