Meet Our Empowered Women

January 2024: Sixty five year old Rebecca lives with her nine family members in an extended household.  She and her husband are aging and ailing. …

January 2024: Seventy-year-old Hellena should be taken care of by her extended family.  Cultural norms and practices dictate the elderly should have assurance of support…

January 2024: Angelina is a thirty two year old subsistence farmer providing for her three children.  She desires to earn more money to keep her…

January 2024: Yah is a fifty-six-year-old mother and grandmother providing for her extended family.  Yah wants to expand her subsistence farming activities to include growing…

January 2024: Betty is a forty-eight-year-old single mother raising eight children through subsistence farming.  Betty is proud of the fact that her two youngest children…

January 2024: Betty is a sixty two year old mother living with her adult and grandchildren in an extended family household.  Her husband’s age and…

January 2024: Cecelia is a twenty three year old single mother raising three children through subsistence farming.  Cecelia’s husband abandoned his family by leaving them…

January 2024: Eighty two year old Gleyee shared the story of how, in her old age, she had to depend upon the charity of her…

January 2024: Josephine is a thirty five year old subsistence farmer living with her husband and six children and providing for her family through subsistence…

January 2024: Fifty two year old Musu is a widow, and provides for her family of seven through subsistence farming and cutting/selling wood.  Wood is…