What is the situation of the women and/or girls served by Courageous Women?
There are few opportunities for a woman to support herself without putting herself under the rule of a man. Keeping a home in rural Haiti is hard physical work under the best of circumstances–searching for firewood, walking long distances to carry water in buckets, scrubbing laundry by hand, always worrying about finding food. A family that eats one meal a day is doing well. It is the woman’s responsibility to make everything work, even though she doesn’t have the resources. Haitian women are very strong. The man earns the money and chooses how much to give her to run the household and support his children. Her husband says when she can go out and who she can see.
