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For most of her life, Olive, 22, cared for her two younger brothers. Together, the family survived by finding work on farms.

When farm jobs didn’t provide their basic needs, Olive and her brothers begged or stole, which often led to conflict with the neighbors and relatives. 

The siblings gained a bad reputation and were not welcome in community gathering spaces or at events, further adding to their sadness and isolation. 

This is how Olive turned her life and her story around with Zoe Empowers.

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Solange assumed the role of caretaker for her household when she was eighteen. 

With four younger siblings to support, she clocked long hours doing physical labor on farms and construction sites, earning what she could to feed them and afford school fees. 

Regardless of the effort, she fell short, and the family suffered. Eventually, all of her siblings had dropped out of school. 

When the global pandemic hit, Solange feared for the worst. It became even harder to find work. How would they survive?

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We disrupt cycles of poverty among vulnerable youth through a peer-led program in which participants help one another become safe and healthy, skilled for long-term success, and able to lead meaningful lives within a supportive community.

We focus on self-sufficiency from the start by organizing youth into mutual support groups who receive modest inputs and training from the Zoe network and local community leaders. Over the course of our three-year program, these young people take responsibility for their individual and collective growth, achieving sustainable success across every area of life and empowering others to do the same.

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Gaston Warner, CEO of Zoe Empowers talks about how we can do less for orphans to make room for them to do more.

Gaston was employed by Duke University to come alongside non-profits. He worked with over 60 organizations assisting with synergy, strategy, and connecting with the University. He thought he’d seen it all when he was introduced to a radically different approach to orphan empowerment, designed by African social workers, which was achieving far more than he thought possible.

“Life has been a great adventure. From a calling into ministry at age 14, through college, seminary, business training, and working with churches/mission-focused non-profits around the world for almost 30 years, I have enjoyed opportunities to learn and grow professionally. My marriage of 25 years to Rev. Dr. Laceye Warner, who serves as associate professor, and previously academic dean and executive vice-dean for Duke University Divinity School, our six year-old daughter Clare, and living on a ranch with chickens, horses, cows, and bees has added depth and breadth to life.

Life took an unexpected turn when a friend introduced me to a small mission implementing a three-year empowerment model designed by a group of Rwandan social workers. Frustrated by the cycle of relief and dependency, they designed a community and group based approach whereby orphans crushed by poverty, trafficking, hunger and abuse, are able to work together inside their own community to pull one another sustainably out of extreme poverty, with a success rate of approximately 85%. Zoe Empowers is more effective in measurable ways than anything I had seen or even imagined. What a privilege to stand behind these amazing orphans as they change themselves and the world.” – Gaston Warner

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