Ongoing Projects: 

Women of FIRE Scholarship Program

click here for scholarship information and form Scholarship Program covers expenses for tuition, uniforms, and books. Application process begins in February of the preceding school year.  Students must be enrolled at an institution (public or private) recognized by the Ministry of Education in Liberia.

“Big Sister-Small Sister” :

 Mentoring teenage girls to become

Women of Distinction

The Big Sister-Small Sister young women's mentoring program, is a new initiative being developed by the Women of FIRE. We recognize that there is a tremendous need for adult role models to mentor young women in our society. The program is a year-round youth development program focused on building the employment and leadership skills of young women and the self-esteem of girls. Program services will include work experience, leadership training, mentoring, intercultural exchanges, counseling, support and weekend and summer activities. The program will bring girls together in small and large groups, and one-to-one, to promote intercultural cooperation and cultural appreciation.

Rural Farm Women Training Program

While they are often silent, hidden, and under-appreciated, rural women represent probably our world’s most powerful untapped natural resource, and they are surely more than ever before a key to world stability and understanding. With support from USAID and others who have implemented similar groups in Ghana and Nigeria, we want to extend business planning skills to rural, small holder women farmers, a majority of whom have traditionally not received such training. When given a chance, women are fiscally responsible, and share profits within the family and community system. As women make money, they make investments such as schools and health care, which improve the life of their children and the community as a whole.

Completed Projects:

Back to School Supplies Drive

 Spearheaded a donation drive to provide back to school

supplies to Liberian refugee children in the Clarkston Community in Georgia,

where Women of Fire is based.

 Global Professional Networking Night

Hosted a networking meet & greet for professionals to receive a complimentary profile

in a global professional directory, learn about business opportunities both local

and international and network with professionals from diverse industries.

Scholarship Program Graduates

Women of Fire congratulates our scholarship students

Richard Doe (Class Valedictorian) and Wolobah Gbozee

on their graduation from JJ Roberts United Methodist School, October 2007

Community Service Projects

Co-sponsored a community project in April and May 2007 with the BlueLinks Morning Show & Lone Star Cell to feed the handicapped and homeless at Sports Commission. Women of Fire donated 600  cups of rice to this worthy cause.

Orphanage Project 2007: Love a Child Orphanage, Robertsfield Highway

donation of mattresses to orphanage facility that houses 37 boys & girls.

This donations ensures every orphan will have a bed to sleep on.

Congratulations to our 2006-2007 Women of FIRE scholarship recipients:

Wolobah Gbozee

Richard Doe

Mariam Varney

Anna Thomas

Eliza Miller

Samuel Horton, Jr.

Marthaline Dorsla

Joseph Cooper

(JJ Roberts Methodist School, St. Kizito's, Sylvia Broderick Industrial Institute)

Congratulations to our 2005-2006 Women of FIRE scholarship recipients:

 Abdullah Fahnbulleh

 Georgia-Lee Frank

(Monrovia College, Cathedral Catholic School, University of Liberia)

Education Initiative 2005 Phase A : Shipment of Supplies to Susie Guenter Orphanage near Coopers Beach in Monrovia, Liberia. Combined facility: school (nursery-12th grade), orphanage & clinic; enrollment: 113 children, ages 6-14

Director Jefferson Zeon welcomes Women of FIRE Vice Chair

Hawa-Ellen Knuckles as she visits the children at the orphanage

Shipment of supplies are received at site - August 2005

Education Initiative 2005 Phase B: Shipment of supplies to the Liberia for Jesus Academy & Orphanage  in Paynesville, Liberia. Enrollment: 600 children, grades K to 6th. Orphanage: 25 orphans.

Shipment of supplies to site are received- Summer 2005

Children's Refugee Camp Project 2004: donation of children's clothing to the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana for distribution to Liberian children. click on postcard to read the Thank you note.

Christmas Project 2004- shipped toys and books to Orphans of Aids Foundation in Monrovia, Liberia.

 Children's Education Initiative 2004 : donation of classroom chairs to the Victoria Thomas Orphanage in Matadi Estate.   See pictures below from the presentation ceremony. Many thanks to Measuagoon for being our partner "on-the-ground". click here to see related newspaper article (source: The Inquirer, June 11, 2004)

Women's Health Initiative 2004: Hosted a women's health seminar at John Wesley UMC aimed at  educating our Liberian women and the greater community about health concerns for today's woman.  

Christmas Project 2003:  Shipped children's games, toys, and books to Seys United Methodist Church for distribution to neighborhood children at Christmas-time in Liberia. .

 Children's Initiative Project 2003 : Purchased and donated canned and other food items for Divine Mercy, an orphanage for the blind in Liberia.

pictured below: Board Member, Hawa-Ellen Knuckles packaging items at warehouse.

 Children's Orphanage Project 2003: Donated fundraising proceeds to Save the Children, a global non-profit organization that operates an orphanage in Liberia;  funds were designated to general operating costs for the Monrovia facility. click here to see related document from Save the Children.