Due to the abduction of young girls by the Lords Resistance Army in northern Uganda, many of these girls who have become mothers, missed out on education, if in fact they attended school at all. Their circumstances have left them unequipped to provide their basic needs and the needs of their children and siblings they are now caring for. With the support of FH, these mothers are provided with emotional, spiritual, physical, educational and econnomic support. The child mothers have organised themselves into Income Generating Activity-groups with the intention of working collectively to improve their economic situation.  Please visit ESFA's website to learn more about this program and how you may become involved in supporting these child mothers. 

                             
One of the child mothers in uniform with her child after school.

Nurturing the Nations- Darrow Miller
"...The ideas we harbor in the deep recesses of our souls have influence that goes far beyond our individual lives and families. They can create either healthy societies or impoverished ones. They can build or destroy nations. This book seeks to address a deceitful idea that, to one extent or another, has infected every culture, with disastrous conequences for all of us: Men are superior to women." If you're interested to know more about Darrow Miller's latest book, please contact ESFA's office.

"Espoir pour ceux qui ont Faim", based in Suisse-Romande but representing the whole of Switzerland, has recently decided to expand into the 64%-German speaking part of Switzerland. This will enable ESFA to continue the process of feeding on the fertile friction between the four official languages and cultures - German, French, Italian and Romansh.

Vreni Rutishauser, a 51-year old married mother of three grown-up children who has worked as a community nurse in Egnach until 2006 and a niece of ESFA's president Armand and his wife Heidi Heiniger, decided to take up the challenge of representing ESFA as "Hoffnung für die Hungrigen" in Swiss-Germany. Vreni describes the Rwanda and Burundi staff that she met on a recent visit as competant and motivated, qualities that are desperately needed to bring an end to  the unimaginable poverty and trauma she'd seen in Africa. She has already started networking in the Lake Constance-area and is counting on the good hearts, open ears and generosity of the Swiss-German people.