Jennifer is 18 years old. She was abducted by the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) Rebels and forced to be a “wife” or sex slave.

After she escaped from the Rebels, her family and community rejected her because she was now pregnant with a Rebel’s baby. Men took advantage of her because she had already been raped. She was left alone and rejected by everyone she knew. Some would call her an outcast or a “throw away” girl.

Today, Jennifer is one of 3 leaders who oversee the Bead of Hope Project. She not only receives an income from this to feed her 2 year old daughter. She has learned a skill that is marketable. But she also feels a sense of value and self worth that she had lost due to pain and abuse in her life.

God has taken a life that seemed worthless, useless, and seemingly “throw away” and made something beautiful out of it; just as Jennifer takes recycled, worthless, useless, “throw away” paper and makes beautiful beads out of it.