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Thanks to the S2S group Iffat can now help to provide for her family
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and believes it would not have been possible without the S2S group. Because of this she is able to help provide for her husband and their six children and all of their families also. She is praying that this business can grow and she might be able to acquire a larger shop and even employ another one of the women from the S2S group.
Thanks to your generosity and kindness Strength to Stand groups are able to provide impoverished Christian women in Pakistan with help to set up their own small businesses
ith the encouragement Maqsooda (pictured) belongs to and support of a an S2S group known as ‘Daughters Strength to Stand (S2S) of the Lord’. This has been a huge group, Iffat has been encouragement to her and has
Rani started a small business in 2022 with the support of her S2S group, ‘God is Love’. She began by selling snacks in a local street, but now the business has grown and she sells BBQ items. Being part of the S2S group
has been a huge blessing for her and she loves to meet other women, to worship and pray with them. She feels that she has grown in her faith and is able to trust God more. Recently, Rani has been unwell and so the business has been more difficult, but she has been thankful for the support and prayer of the group. She hopes she will be able to help others there to
able to purchase a sewing machine enabled her to take out a loan to
and start a business repairing and begin a small business to help her making clothing. Her family was family. Maqsooda buys snacks and struggling financially and was not drinks from a store and sells them for able to pay the bills, which led to the a small profit outside a school. With electricity at their home being turned the profits she has been able to repay off. Now she is able to make money to the loan and the income is helping help to provide for her family. When her to provide for her family. She is she started the business she had only hoping and praying that the business two orders per month; now she has can grow.
more than 30! She thanks God for the
S2S group and the huge help it has open a small shop with the prayers
been to her to develop the business and support of the S2S members. She and improve her life. is thankful to God for this provision
Khalida (pictured) has been able to
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