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Category Archives: Impact Stories

The CCW Dolls Continue Their Adventures

Home Current Happenings, Impact StoriesBy Loom StaffNovember 16, 2020

Creativity might just be one of the most important skills a teacher has, especially in this season of remote and distance learning. In Loom’s Celebrating Children Workshop’s Facilitator training this Spring, we discussed the role of a teacher and what it means to help students learn. Just like in the CCW, this meant using creative…

“Moving from Unknowns to “Aha!” – Highlights from Six Months of Small Business

Home Current Happenings, Impact StoriesBy Loom StaffNovember 16, 2020

As the six-month incubation period of Vuka small businesses comes to a close, we asked both Loom coaches and business owners what their highlights from this new initiative were.    “Moving from an unknown stage to a ‘Aha!’ That is my experience with coaching my clients. I grew in my ability to be an active…

Against All Odds

Home Current Happenings, Impact StoriesBy Loom StaffOctober 21, 2020

We start out at dark, and first light becomes a crimson streak across the sky. The sound of our van lurching along the rocky terrain is mingled with cowbells and braying goats. We are in Engikaret, the “place of thorns,” in a Maasai region outside of Arusha, Tanzania. We are here to experience what it…

What Has Always Remained True: A Look Back on the CCW After Ten Years

Home Current Happenings, Impact StoriesBy Loom StaffSeptember 1, 2020

Ten years ago, a small team of international trainers walked up a red clay path and entered a classroom in Kigali, Rwanda. Inside sat fifty pastors, teachers, caregivers, Sunday school leaders, and nonprofit workers who would become the first-ever participants of the Celebrating Children Workshop.  The month-long workshop was the product of two and a…

“Could You Teach This To Your Grandmother?” CCW Facilitator Training

Home Current Happenings, Impact StoriesBy Loom StaffMay 11, 2020

“It’s not a training, it’s a transformation.” Mary, one of our partners, spoke these words when we asked her how the Celebrating Children Workshop (CCW) has changed her work with vulnerable children. In the past four years since she first took the CCW, Mary has not only continued her work with 85 children at risk,…

“They Will Take This and Make It Better”

Home Current Happenings, Impact StoriesBy Loom StaffApril 28, 2020

“They will take this and make it better.”  From the launch of Loom’s Celebrating Children Workshop (CCW) ten years ago, our goal has always been to get the training into the hands of those who need it most. We knew this would mean that we couldn’t just be satisfied with doing a few trainings on…

A Heart as Wide as Every Child

Home Current Happenings, Impact StoriesBy Loom StaffApril 15, 2020

For generations, their families have never gone to school. Now, these two grandmothers won’t stop until their community has the chance they never did.  Several weeks ago, we had the privilege of sitting down with two extraordinary leaders who are tenaciously changing the future of their communities. These leaders are visionaries: they have the gift…

“You Have to Understand the Whole”: Trauma Competent Care

Home Current Happenings, Impact StoriesBy Loom StaffApril 13, 2020

“I’ve never sat in better training, ever.” – Jane Brenda, Uganda “It’s one of the best trainings I’ve ever done. It opened my mind. I learned so much about trauma-related issues and their impact on children.” – Helen, Kenya “This training filled a void that I had and it is not to me alone but…

Five Social Innovators Tell Us What They’ve Learned

Home Current Happenings, Impact StoriesBy Loom StaffMarch 31, 2020

While we were in East Africa last month, we sat down with social innovators working in a variety of community development projects and asked them one question. From animal husbandry to education to job skills training, here is what they have learned.     “It is good to start small with a business like this…

Never Too Late: Unintentional Mistakes That Affect the Lives of Children

Home Current Happenings, Impact StoriesBy Loom StaffFebruary 13, 2020

By Eugenie Adamah-Tassah   A few days ago I was getting ready for work. I got my children fed and ready to go to school and was drinking my hibiscus tea before heading to the car. While I was half-way through my cup of tea, I spilled the rest on my white shirt. Frustrated by…

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