Hope Unlimited’s very own Corenne Smith and Bella Smith are now sewing course graduates!
Corenne has some wonderful insights into the lives and experiences of her classmates and instructor.
Instructor Cynthia is in the middle with long, dark, curly hair. See her up close in the photo at the bottom of the page as well.
Hope Unlimited for Children had 1,200 vocational training day students enrolled last year. They each studied on campus from 3 months to 1 year and received formal certification in a vocational trade.
Sewing course graduates, like these pictured, go on to become professional seamstresses or tailors. Some will even open up their own businesses!
Check Out Scenes from Around the Sewing Classroom
Transformation by Godly Love + Learning Career Skills = HOPE
Sewing Courses FAQ
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- We anticipate 120 graduates certified as seamstresses and tailors ready to enter the workforce in one year.
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- The course consists of 6 classes for 20 students each lasting 4 hours a day for 3 months, plus supplemental classes in Preparation for the Workplace.
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- $7,000.00 covers the course supplies for 120 students and the instructor’s salary for 6 months.
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Would you give 120 young people hope for the future with a marketable skill?
Help us reach $7,000.00 to provide course supplies for 120 students and 6 months of instruction!
To make sure your gift counts toward the sewing course, please enter “sewing course” into the notes field
Transforming the lives of children at risk, providing them and their future generations with productive futures and Eternal hope.
While we seek to equip our students with skills that enable them to live financially independent lives, “worldly” success is not our ultimate goal. We want our students to know Jesus! Pray that our team members will let God work through them to effectively penetrate the heart of every unsaved person on our campuses, so they can also meet their heavenly Father in a personal way. Then pray these students will go out into their communities and spread the gospel!
Our students hard at work learning.
Each student models their project on the red carpet at graduation.
Pray that each of our day students encounters Jesus.
ABOUT HOPE UNLIMITED
The problem is millions of homeless children on Brazil’s city streets—a killing field where a nation’s youth survive as commodities for drugs, sex, and violent crime. In the late ‘80s, when Philip Smith and his father, Jack, first heard about the plight of Brazil’s street children, off-duty police were becoming after-dark death squads, systematically exterminating thousands of the “public nuisances” for local business owners. Fortunately, the government was able get a handle on the situation.
But for a child on the streets, the life expectancy is only three to five years.
An estimated 7 to 8 million Brazilian children are on the streets—living, breathing refuse of desperately poor homes, where parents have turned to drugs, alcohol, and crime. And this is the world of Hope Unlimited—organized in 1991 to reclaim and parent the lost children of Brazil.
Over the past 30 years, reaching deeply into one life at a time, Hope Unlimited has embraced thousands of children—including their next generations. And when Hope succeeds, the cycle is broken: a child grows up to become a productive and contributing member of society. Even more importantly, they have become loving and Godly parents. Fully 92% of the boys and girls who completed the residential program at Hope Unlimited are employed today.
Would you give 120 young people hope for the future with a marketable skill?
Help us reach $7,000.00 to provide course supplies for 120 students and 6 months of instruction!
To make sure your gift counts toward the sewing course, please enter “sewing course” into the notes field