Empowering Rural Women with Vocational Skills

The project aims to close the social, economic, and livelihood gaps between men and women in rural Liberia. Rural women and girls in post-war and post-pandemic Liberia face multiple challenges including low standard of living, no means of income generation, extreme poverty, and low self-esteem thereby paving the way for consistent gender-based violence, discrimination, traditions, and practices against women and girls. The project will equip disabled and rural women and girls from low-income backgrounds with marketable vocational skills in tailoring, pastry, sewing country clothes, hairdressing, making soap, and small business management skills. 

Give Them Hope, Inc. has decisively mobilized rural women and girls in rural Liberia by engaging these women and girls in skills training at a lower level since we have not reached our target funding goal for large-scale vocational skills training. We have had mobilization workshops encouraging the women to turn out at scheduled locations in the numbers of 25-30 to undergo skills training in improved methods of gardening that will combat the effect and impact of climate change at the local level. We also trained some of these women in making soap, pastry, and small business skills management.

We have not reached our fundraising goal, but we are using the available resources, skills, and resolve to provide these very vulnerable rural women and girls the skills and knowledge that they need to improve their lives and increase their income capacity.