Most of us have experienced the joy that comes when we truly live our gifts. Whether our gift be teaching or listening, cooking or healing, writing poetry or planting a garden, creating a quilt or guiding an organization, raising a child or raising global awareness: using our talent in the world feels good and generates joy. 
 
Perhaps you have also experienced times when you were not free to live your gifts. Maybe a relationship hemmed you in, or a time of self-doubt hobbled you, or a supervisor cramped your style at work.  We know how that feels, too.  Opportunity lost.  Energies sapped.  A certain weariness settling in. 
 
In South Sudan most women cannot yet live their gifts.  They do not go to school.  They never learn to read. They are not encouraged to develop their talents.  And though it remains very true that in Africa, women still "hold up more than half the sky," it saddens me to see so much untapped potential.  That's why our education projects in Sudan are so wonderful. As more and more girls matriculate through school, we literally see the girls blossoming and growing in self-confidence.  Your gifts to MBB are helping them to develop their gifts.

 

Thank you,