Chilimba’s mission is to support orphans and HIV/AIDS-affected families by providing food, school fees, home-based care, and counseling. They also address behavior change at the community level around traditional initiation practices that negative impact adolescent girls.
Centre for Alternatives for Victimized Women and Children | CAVWOC
CAVWOC’s mission is to empower women and children who have been victimized, specifically promoting women’s and children’s rights and achievement of gender equality regardless of one’s ethnicity, race, religion, sexuality, and sexual orientation.
Touching Humanity In Need of Kindness | THINK
THINK focuses their programs on rehabilitation and reintegration, child protection, prevention and response to sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual and gender based violence, early childhood care and development, sexual and reproductive health for adolescent girls, advocacy, economic empowerment of market women, elimination of gender based violence in Liberia. See this video for a spotlight on their programs.
Save Lives Liberia | SLL
Save Lives’ mission is to address the needs of women and children through women’s empowerment, advocacy, youth development, health, agriculture, gender equality, and good governance. In collaboration with Let Girls Lead, Saves Lives Liberia is working to reduce child and forced marriage, which disproportionately affects adolescent girls in rural Liberia.
Community Empowerment and Sustainable Program, Inc. | CESP
CESP has 20 years of experience in project implementation working to protect girls who have been sexually abused or exploited as well as advocate for a national policy addressing gender-based violence.
Adolescent Girls’ Advocacy Network – Liberia
AGANET Liberia is a vibrant network of agencies and individuals working together to conduct national advocacy activities for the protection of the rights of girls and to ensure that the Government of Liberia increases its commitment to meeting the socio-economic needs and wellbeing of this vulnerable and often overlooked sub-population.
Aiding Disadvantaged Girls and Women | ADWANGA
ADWANGA conducts advocacy programs to end gender-based violence, promote women’s rights, and encourage civic and political participation. Advocacy efforts target the Girls’ Education Policy which mandates provision of safe spaces for girls. The group also promotes girls’ education via allocation of scholarships and provides business support for women living with disabilities (WLWDs).
OSAR JALAPA
OSAR JALAPA / Colectivo Joven: Their strategy is to build partnerships between community-based organizations, and to encourage the active participation of young women in public forums and dialogues with key decision makers and health providers so that experience sharing, empathy and considering youths’ proposals lead to changes in personnel training to provide the highest quality comprehensive local health services for … Read More
Youth Have the Power
Rise Up Together’s Youth Champions Initiative (YCI) believes in the power of youth. In this video, YCI Youth Champions make their voices heard.
UDIMUF
UDIMUF’s project goal is to reduce levels of gender-based violence and impunity in the adolescent population of the municipality of La Ceiba. The project aims to increase the knowledge of adolescents ages 10 to 20 about gender-based violence so that they are able to protect themselves and those around them. These youth will then engage health providers and the justice … Read More
