The Problem

Women’s empowerment is a foundation of the Sustainable Development Goals, as actors across the globe increasingly recognize that when you empower a girl, you empower a nation. Yet women and girls around the world still struggle to access the basic freedoms, rights, and opportunities they deserve. When women are supported to access social economic opportunities, entire societies benefit.

WHI's Solution

Sisters (formerly Adelphé) is a unique economic development program that is advancing entire Cambodian communities through the empowerment of women. By providing women with economic development opportunities, education and health care, entire families and communities are inspired to seek the dignity and hope of a life free from extreme poverty. 

By empowering a Sister, you can help her to establish a business, make her home a healthier place to raise her children, connect her with a support group of women, and help her to know her value in Christ.

Become a Sister

With an investment of just $900, you will enter into a partnership with your Sister in Cambodia. This partnership will help her establish a business, make her home a healthier place to raise her children, connect her with a support group of women, and help her to know her value in Christ.

*While a gift of $900 is recommended to fully provide a foundation for a SISTER, a gift of any amount will help provide hope to women in Cambodia!

EMBRACE THE OPPORTUNITY

Choose to partner with a Sister on your own or present the opportunity to your women's group. 

KNOW
YOUR SISTER 

Within six months, you'll receive a report about your partner Sister and her family in Cambodia.

CELEBRATE HER SUCCESS

With a solid foundation, your Sister will be ready to celebrate! With your help, she'll get her fighting chance.

 

HOW IT WORKS

When you become a SISTER of a woman in Cambodia, you shower her with God’s love through opportunity, community and hope. 

Each SISTER receives:

1. A HOME-BASED BUSINESS – Each SISTER receives supplies and training on building and operating her own mushroom house. Mushrooms from this region are sold to restaurants in large cities and can often generate income of $200 per month (15x the average woman’s income as a day laborer)!
   
   

2. MEMBERSHIP IN A WOMEN’S SAVING GROUP – Women in your SISTER’S community form their own micro loan program after receiving training on personal finance. Now, they can take loans from the group for their businesses instead of paying high interest rates with a “loan shark!”
   
   

3. A LATRINE – As you can imagine, these moms want the best for their children. Having a clean place for them to toilet at home, protects children from illness and keeps them safe and close to their houses.
   
   

4. HEALTH & WELLNESS TRAINING – As women meet for the Women’s Savings Group, they also benefit from trainings on hygiene and nutrition, as well as topics like women’s and children’s rights and the dangers of trafficking.
   
   
5. SUPPORT & COMMUNITY - As women bond through the Women's Saving Groups, they are strengthened by a new sense of community and have a place to turn if times get tough.
   
   
   

SISTERS made all the difference for Horn.
 
Horn Channy married young. She and her husband struggled trying to make ends meet, but never earned enough money for their food. When she learned she was pregnant, she became very nervous. Her husband started traveling, looking for work and doing anything to earn income. She was a day laborer and averaged .30 cents a day in income. When her son was born, he was very sick and they could not afford help. Horn and her husband borrowed money from a loan shark to pay for medicine. Fortunately, her son’s health improved, but now they were over $200 in debt with a very high interest rate.

Horn learned about the Women’s Savings Group from a neighbor and decided to attend a meeting. Her first meeting marked the beginning of a massive transformation for her and her family! Her first loan was to start a mushroom house. She and her husband now have two mushroom houses and her husband no longer has to travel to distant areas to find work. They have completely paid off their debt, purchased a motorbike, and are beginning to build their third mushroom house.