Cut from a Different Cloth

It takes a special kind of person to show up as a mother figure in someone’s life, but for Nyalong Riak, a mother of four living in South Sudan, there was never a moment of hesitation.

Like many young mothers in her region, Nyalong was facing a lifetime of hard manual labor to support and feed her children. “Every day was a struggle for survival,” she shares, recalling the constant fear and exhaustion that characterized this period in her life.

But for Nyalong, it was never a question of whether she would take care of her children, only how she would do so. That’s why she joined a vocational training program in her community being offered by Hope Restoration South Sudan, a trusted partner of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), where she learned to sew and tailor clothes, among other things.

The sewing machine she received through the training program became the compass for her new path forward. With this tool, Nyalong discovered she could stitch together a better future for her family.

When you join The Mother’s Day Give, you help make transformative changes in the lives of mothers like Nyalong. Whether it’s a sewing machine, access to clean water, nutritious food, or other assistance, your gifts create opportunities for women to forge their own paths forward.