Case Study
Economic Empowerment
New Liberian Women Organization Skills Training Center identified that lack of economic empowerment is a factor that exposes women and girls of contracting HIV/AIDS. In its economic empowerment advocacy programs over the last ten years, New Liberia Women has provided skills training for thousands of women and girls in tailoring/sewing, baking, cake designing, Pastry, beauty care, beauty therapy, beekeeping, computer science, soap making, as well was as interior design.
Donor Grants
Our projects and campaigns have been with grants awarded by African Women Development Fund (AWDF), Global Fund for Women (GFW), United Nations High Commission for Women (UNHCR), Women’s Initiative for Self-Empowerment (WISE), Tide Foundation (TF), New Field Foundation (NFF), Urgent Action Fund for Africa (UAFA), as well as ZOA Refugee Council and Open Society Initiative of Africa (OSIWA).
Women and girls have also participated in training programs at the Center sponsored by the Liberian Ministry of Youth and Development in similar programs and certificated under the Youth on the Job Training (YOJT) in a partnership program with the Ministry. Trainees were placed in various categories based on careful needs analysis. Participants who graduated from our programs have found gainful employment with various business entities, corporations, government agencies, and some have established their own small businesses in their communities.
Our Uniqueness
NLWSTP is unique in being a nongovernmental organization actively devoted to women’s and girls’ issues since its founding. The organization continues to grow and expand the capacity of governments to address women and girls’ issues, while at the same time, enhancing women skills in relations to developmental work, entrepreneurship, and income generation.
ADVOCACY/HUMAN RIGHTS/HIV, STD and AIDS
New Liberian Women Organization Skills Training Center is advocating that national development is not possible without women’s and girls’ development and empowerment as they inextricably linked. Failing to recognize and manage that linkage would not only imply a lack of vision, but also a failure to utilize a significant proportion of the population. Awareness campaigns on human rights, women rights and girls, HIV/STD, and AIDS are made possible with grants from African Women Development Fund (AWDF), The Global Fund for Women, Ministry of Gender and Development partnership with us in awareness campaigns as they relate to the International Women’s Day and the 16-day Activism against sexual Gender Based violence against women. Campaigns on United Nations Chapter 1324 on advocating women’s human rights were amongst major campaigns undertaken during the period under review. Women and girls of all walks of life fully participated with a lesson learned.