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Gospel for Asia Literacy Class Opens Business Opportunities for Woman

Gospel for Asia Literacy Class Opens Business Opportunities for Woman

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 3:46 pm by GFA Staff Writer

Gospel for Asia Literacy Class Opens Business Opportunities for Woman 2022-08-17T15:46:35+00:00 GFA Staff Writer

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WILLS POINT, TX – Gospel for Asia (GFA World and affiliates like Gospel for Asia Canada) founded by Dr. K.P. Yohannan – Discussing the struggles of women like Preshti who grew up illiterate, and the literacy classes by Gospel for Asia missionaries that opened business opportunities for women.

Was this the bus Preshti needed? Or was it that one? Visiting her mother in another city always proved to be a challenge for the 45-year-old mother of four. She couldn’t read the signs.

Preshti (pictured) proudly holds the workbook she used during the literacy program.

Growing Up Illiterate

Preshti was among the two-thirds of women in her area who are illiterate. Growing up, Preshti was not able to attend school because of her parents’ poverty. As the eldest, Preshti took care of her siblings and the home while her parents worked. The money they made put Presthi’s younger siblings through school. For Preshti, school seemed out of reach, and she carried this belief into her adult years.

After she met and married her husband, Preshti realized just how important literacy was. She struggled to read street signs, pay bills, board the correct bus, check her earnings and count the change she received at the market. Many times she used her fingerprint to sign legal documents she couldn’t even read.

Grasping the Skills to Change through Gospel for Asia Literacy Classes

Then Preshti enrolled in a literacy class organized by Gospel for Asia (GFA) woman missionaries. Some challenges arose, however. If she took the classes during the day, she couldn’t work. The missionaries moved the classes to evening, but even then, Preshti could barely focus after a hard day’s work. Then, after class, she would come home and cook dinner, and her alcoholic husband would be angry if she was too late getting dinner on the table.

But Preshti pushed on. She needed these classes.

After some months, Preshti “graduated.” Her confidence soared; she finally could read and write!

Armed with her newfound abilities, Preshti joined other women in a local small business plan. Taking a loan, the women started small businesses and used the earnings to pay the loan and provide for their families.

Preshti used her skills to keep a clear record of her loans and payments with ease. She helped the group’s leader organize weekly meetings and keep a register of all members. With her earnings, Preshti provided for her family, who rejoiced in her newfound literacy.

For many years, Preshti thought an education was out of her reach. Now she holds the benefits and opportunities of literacy in her hands.

Read how literacy transformed the life of another woman.

Learn more about the Gospel for Asia Women Missionaries workers and their heroic efforts, dedicating their lives to bringing hope and God’s love to the women of Asia – whether they be a widow, abandoned girl, or the marginalized.

*Names of people and places may have been changed for privacy and security reasons. Images are GFA stock photos used for representation purposes and are not the actual person/location, unless otherwise noted.

Source: Gospel for Asia Feature Article, Literacy Opens Business Opportunities For Woman

Learn more about Gospel for Asia’s programs to combat the 100 million missing women reality by helping women through Vocational Training, Sewing Machines and Literacy Training.

Learn more by reading these Special Reports from Gospel for Asia:

Fighting Global Poverty with Ideas — Uprooting poverty requires education that transmits values
Poverty: Public Enemy #1 — Eliminating Extreme Poverty Worldwide is Possible, But Not Inevitable

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