Vicky Wauterlek

In the late 1990s, Vicky Wauterlek founded HANDS OF HOPE after she and a group of women traveled to Nigeria and saw the plight of women and children.

Each and every day, millions of African women and children struggle to find enough food to stave off malnutrition, enough clean water to survive and medical services necessary to sustain minimal health. Faced with limited vocational and educational opportunities and the realities of abuse and war, they long for lives of health, prosperity and security for their families, their villages and their nations, values important to all of us.

This week on FIRST PERSON, Vicky describes what HANDS OF HOPE does to envision, create, manage and sustain projects to improve agriculture, economic development, education, health care and water. HANDS OF HOPE is assisting in the African countries of Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, and most recently, Zambia.

NEXT WEEK:  Pastor and author, Tullian Tchividjian