Project Esther was designed as a means to help empower women, families and churches in remote villages throughout Central Africa. It should come as no surprise that villages are commonly left without important supports from their local and national governments, such as: No Electricity, No Running or Clean Water, Very few equipped medical providers/hospitals, Very poor Education and School environments, and the list goes on and on!

A few years ago while serving the human needs of remote villagers, our team wondered how we could help them without creating a dependency upon our teams long-term? Project Esther was born! We went back to the United States and our Founder, Egypt McKee, visited many churches and asked if the women would be willing to donate their Wedding Dresses to help us help remote villages build ethical “Wedding Dress Rental Businesses?”

The response was overwhelmingly positive, and our teams began by receiving, cleaning and preparing Wedding Dresses, Mending Kits, Clean Storage Bags, and Start-up Cash to train and assist remote villages in their need to meet their daily needs and become independent. We are humbled to announce that the first year we implemented this new project, the first wedding dress rented for the equivalent of four (4) months wages before we departed!

This business model is simple, and gives our teams the opportunity to keep village leaders accountable ethically, while providing for needs they would not otherwise be able to do by themselves or through their governments. For more information on how you can help us get more Wedding Dress Rentals started in Africa, please contact us.



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Two Women receive our Wedding Dresses as the villagers looks on with joy



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Hope shows the villagers what a Wedding Dresses looks like with a smile


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Village women models a wedding dress for us,
and later received a huge applause from her fellow villagers