Theme:
"Right to Participate: Let the children be seen and
heard"
Centre
for Liberian Assistance, Inc.
Empowering Women & Educating Children
Background:
the centre for Liberia assistance Inc., was founded by Liberians
in California in 1992 for the purpose of providing some
assistance to Liberian and Sierra Leone Women and children
in displaced centers in Liberia as well as refugees in Ghana.
New
Structure: Over the last few years, CLA has evolved from
simply providing food to offering solution: from the immediate
needs of food and clothing to the long-term needs of education,
advocacy and housing. Now that the war is over in Liberia,
our goals are to provide educational opportunities to school
age girls in Liberia and to empower marginalized women in
Liberia as well as returning refugees
We
Run Two Programs:
1.
Women's Empowerment program- The main goals of this program
are to improve standard of living for disadvantaged Liberian
women and to serve returning refugee women. We do this through
advocacy, lobbying, denouncing human rights abuses, awareness
workshops, forums, grant making, research and documentation.
In addition, CLA teaches women how to advocate for themselves
and their communities, using their voices to promote positive
change in 2006-2007 we became more active in the fight against
gender based violence (GBV)
2.
Girls Education Programs - The program provides an opportunity
to create a powerful support system to meet the educational
and psychological needs of girls in post ware Liberia. The
goal of of this program is to give the girl child access
to quality education through scholarships. We currently
cater to girls between the ages of four years to fourteen
years old. These are disadvantaged kids whose tuition we
underwrite through a scholarship program. We also provide
monthly home visits to children in our program to evaluate
additional needs.
Goals
for 2008 - 2009
