Faith Without Borders

Dear friends and family,             Wow, what another full on month! At the beginning of this month I went on a 5 day research trip to Kolkata, India with two other women who work at BFA. This was my first trip to India and lets just say I’m not exactly hankering to return. Our purpose for going there was to seek advice and knowledge from other Christian businesses who are doing similar work as BFA. BFA is growing quickly and we wanted to get some practical advice from them. Also about 10,000 to 15,000 Nepali women are trafficked into India each year for sexual slavery and Kolkata has many brothels, some that only have Nepali women in them. We visited 3 of these and were able to talk to the women in Nepali for a long time, normally the women are not allowed to talk to outsiders as they are watched over constantly since they fetch a higher price. As you can imagine this was an emotional time for me, but as Christians we need to s...

 Hey guys, I just wanted to make you aware of this cool new thing were doing at Beauty For Ashes Nepal. My friend and co-worker wrote all about it this link: http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=addad9c09c809705aec4feb66&id=16844b8cf1 Basically we have designed a new bracelet and all the proceeds go towards helping to rebuild Nepal. It also ensures jobs for 20 more women at BFA, that 20 women who have a greater chance of not being trafficked and get a fighting chance at rebuilding her life after the earthquake. Thanks and God Bless, Kylee Nicholas

Dear friends and family,             Wow, what a month. At first I wasn’t sure what I was going to write in this update, it has taken me some time to even find time to write this to you all.  You see April has been a rough month for me even before the earthquake hit. For almost the whole month something has been wrong with me physically. I bruised my tailbone which made sitting, riding the bike and sometimes sleeping uncomfortable. Than I had the flu and then a cold on and off for the whole first three weeks of this month. It was rough, and then to top it all off the 7.9 earthquake hit at 11:45am on Saturday April 25 th . Normally on a Saturday I sleep in, maybe go to a coffee shop or walk around the city, thankfully I was at a garden in a nice open location selling Beauty For Ashes products with some friends when the earthquake hit. It truly is a miracle that I and almost everyone I know was unharmed and safe.  ...