The Women International Fellowship ( WIF ) is a Christian women ’ s organization that was founded in Harare , Zimbabwe in 1998 . It is in Southern ( Zimbabwe ) and East Africa ( Tanzania ) and is a 501 ( c ) 3 Nonprofit Organization in the USA .
Within a year of its inception WIF began community outreaches that eventually included weekly visits to AIDS sufferers , orphans , widows , sex workers , prisoners , and former prisoners and their families .
The work of the Women ’ s International Fellowship is thus divided into five main thrusts :
THE AIDS MINISTRY : WIF presents the hope and unconditional love of the Gospel , counsels encourages and fellowship s with sufferers .
WIF also aspires to help sufferers achieve spiritual and emotional healing from the inner wounds that arise from the stigma , fear , anger and rejection that victims of AIDS have to endure .
THE PRISONERS ’ MINISTRY : WIF takes food to prisoners , and food and clothing to children in prisons with their mothers as well as sanitary products for incarcerated women . WIF counsels , preaches and offers
. much needed social support and acceptance .
THE ORPHANS ’ MINISTRY : This outreach seeks to help households of orphans who have lost both parents to the AIDS pandemic and subsequently , live on their own . WIF also helps other children in extreme hardship as well as supporting grandmothers and widows in a variety of ways . WIF provides food , school fees , uniforms and supplies , clothing , and at times , rent . The charity offers spiritual help , social guidance , counseling , prayers , and organizes the burial of the dead . In addition , WIF obtains school reinstatement for children who have dropped out of school and monitors school performance .
In 2007 / 2008 , WIF had its first graduates , one from the University of Zimbabwe ’ s School of Medicine and the other from the Harare Polytechnic . The charity currently has several undergraduates in Universities . In a year WIF touches the lives of between 3,000 to 3,500 orphans .
THE RAHAB MINISTRY : The objective of this outreach , is to convert and rehabilitate women in the sex industry . In the era of AIDS , this ministry is vital and urgent . WIF ’ s
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