A Gate of Hope Initiative
You don’t have to carry it alone.
Humura means “be comforted, be at peace.” It’s Gate of Hope’s program for East African women and single mothers, many of them survivors of violence at home. At its heart is a group of women who meet close to home, in their own language, with a counselor who listens and real help when life gets hard.
In her words
I didn’t know where to turn. I was carrying so much, and I had no one to carry it with. Then I met Pauline, and she told me about a group of women who meet right in my neighborhood. I almost didn’t go. Now I can’t imagine life without them. When something is hard, I’m not facing it by myself anymore. These women are with me. A Humura participant
What we carry
Six things we carry into every room.
The promises underneath the work. Flip a card to see what each one means.
How Humura helps
Three ways we walk with you.
No one thing fixes a hard season, so Humura works on a few at once: a circle of women around you, someone in your corner one on one, and help with the practical things that move a life forward.
The women’s group
A circle of women who share your language and a lot of your story. You meet close to home, in Kinyarwanda or Swahili, to talk, to breathe, and to build friendships that hold. Come any week. The group stays open.
Someone in your corner
A case manager who walks with you week to week: housing, Medicaid, a doctor’s visit, a meeting at your kid’s school, whatever’s in front of you. And when you’re sent to another office, we don’t hand you a phone number. We go with you.
Real next steps
The practical things that get a life moving: English classes and driving lessons, help getting ready for work and to a job fair, a winter coat, diapers when the month runs short. Small steps, taken with you.
Held in Swahili, Kinyarwanda, French, Kirundi, and Kinyamulenge, by women who share the culture and the journey.
Who Humura is for.
Humura is for East African women and single mothers in Louisville. Women who’ve survived violence at home, mothers raising children on their own, and women who’ve just arrived and are finding their footing. Most come to us through partners like Kentucky Refugee Ministries, Catholic Charities, and the IRC. If you’re carrying something heavy, there’s a place for you here, in Kinyarwanda, Swahili, French, Kirundi, or Kinyamulenge, whatever’s home to you.
Be part of it
Walk alongside someone healing.
A gift to 100 Hearts of Hope keeps Humura going: the neighborhood women’s groups, the case manager who picks up the phone, and the practical help that carries a mother through a hard month. No one should face it alone. Here, no one does.
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