All Women?s Empowerment Stories
Ask Me Anything with Julie Higgins
I Pour Life’s Founder and CEO, Julie Higgins, recently hosted a Facebook Live to answer questions from the public about I Pour Life’s Global programs. Did you know I Pour Life always hires national staff wherever a program …
Meet Alemitu: A Story of Success
When Alemitu first came to I Pour Life, she was one of the most poverty-stricken women we’ve ever met. She was extremely depressed and discouraged, telling us, “I have no one left. When I came to Kore I was looking to find a …
How A Community is Lifting Themselves Out of Generational Poverty
I Pour Life Ethiopia has been assisting the destitute women and at-risk youth of the Kore community since 2014. I Pour Life supported the assembly of 53 women and 21 youth to form a Savings and Credit Cooperative Association …
Self-Confidence Changes Everything
When I Pour Life found Birtukan, she was hopeless, and helpless with very low self-esteem. She was living on her husband’s income from begging. Birtukan was recruited a year ago. She Is married to handicap man who begs for li …
Together We Rise
For as long as I can remember, the troubles of the world have felt too big for me. I’d find myself depressed from focusing on the injustices surrounding me and couldn’t see my blessings because I was drowning in sadness. I wa …
Wini: One Woman’s Hope for Her Community
At age fifteen, Woineshet–also known as Wini–was diagnosed with leprosy. After her primary caretaker and guardian passed away, Winnie came to Kore. There, she found a bit of solace living in a city among others with conditi …
