Magazine for November 2009
Open Doors
Open Doors stands alongside persecuted women in prayer and presence, by visiting and encouraging the oppressed. Open Doors also provides literacy and vocational training so that women, who so often are considered unworthy of an education, can read God’s promises for themselves – and pass their knowledge on to their children. Through vocational and literacy training Christian women can find new hope, regain their dignity, and strengthen their Christian faith.
When Grace Aminu’s husband died in Nigeria, she declined the unwelcome advances of her late husband’s brother (who was already married to two women with whom he has fathered many children). This made her an outcast and she and her nine children were thrown out of the family compound. She lost the small plot of land she had formerly worked with her husband.
Through Open Doors she now has a small dwelling to shelter herself and her children and a plot of land with seeds and crops to cultivate.