About Us
We are a not-for-profit corporation formed under the Liberia’s Not-For-Profit Corporation Act of the Liberian Business Corporation Act (1976). We are headquartered in Monrovia, Liberia with extensive reach throughout Liberia. We work to full fill the social, health, and financial empowerment needs of women. through organization and innovation. We empower women in communities and provide economic development services to women and youth throughout Liberia.
Aims and Objectives
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- Strengthen the capacity of women and youth through the provision of economic and development services.
- Engage in building support and unifying communities for the creation of dependable and sustainable livelihoods.
- Strengthen and empower local communities through microloans and skill training.
- Undertake and support programs that are early childhood education and early childhood development related.
- Engage in the formulation of microfinance services, agricultural programs with community organizations for empowerment purposes.
- Engage in the building of a long-term relationship with community cooperatives to enhance self-sufficiency.
- Engage in networking with partners such as women groups, youth organizations, civil society actors, free trade entities, and agricultural specialists; local and international.
- Engage in the business of consulting and/or development in the areas of sustainable international development.
- Encourage and promote civic and community participation and empowerment for women.
Mission and Vision
We consider that empowerment is the process of increasing the authority and responsibility of individuals or groups to make choices and to transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes.
Need for Women Empowerment
The main problems that were faced by women in past days and still today up to some extent.
Women’s Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social, educational, gender, or economic strength of individuals and communities of women.
Women’s Empowerment is an active, multi-dimensional process that enables women to realize their potential and powers in all spheres of life. The process should materialize only when there is a conducive environment for the enlightenment which is to be ensured first.
Empowerment as a concept was introduced in 1985 in Nairobi. The conference defined Empowerment as a redistribution of social power and control of resources in favor of women.
Women’s Empowerment has five components.
- Women's sense of self-worship
- Their right to have and to determine choices
- Their right to have access to opportunities and resources
- Their right to have the power to control their own lives, both within and outside the home
- Their ability to influence the direction of social change to create a kore just social and economic order, nationally and internationally.