How Open Doors helps

Open Doors stands alongside persecuted women in prayer and presence, by visiting and encouraging the oppressed.

Open Doors also provides literacy and vocational training so that women, who so often are considered unworthy of an education, can read God’s promises for themselves – and pass their knowledge on to their children. Through vocational and literacy training Christian women can find new hope, regain their dignity, and strengthen their Christian faith.

Where there are immediate needs for practical support Open Doors can make a difference to the lives and livelihoods of our sisters in Christ.

Women like Grace who have been forced from their family home and live in poverty can benefit from a grant so that they can survive and feed their families.

Grace Aminu lost her pastor husband in religious riots in Northern Nigeria. She and her husband had lived in the family compound. But when her husband died, Grace’s in-laws expected her to accept the unwelcome advances of her late husband’s brother. She was horrified; he was already married to two women with whom he has fathered many children. Grace declined his proposal. Her refusal meant that she was considered an outcast. She and her nine children were thrown out of the family compound and her in-laws took away the small portion of land she had formerly worked with her husband. Through Open Doors she now has a small dwelling to shelter herself and her children and a plot of land with seeds and crops to cultivate.

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