10 Reasons Zoe Empowers is Unlike Other Children’s Charities
Zoe Empowers started as a relief-based organization with short-term, marginal results. In the early 2000s, the AIDS pandemic devastated communities in sub-saharan Africa, leaving hundreds of thousands of orphaned children in its wake. Globally, there was a push to donate to Africa, support orphan charities, sponsor an orphan, and fundraise for an orphanage. Zoe Empowers […]
Nowhere to go: Street children cope with isolation orders
To control the spread of the novel Coronavirus, countries around the world have asked its people to stay inside to practice social distancing. Social distancing involves keeping space (6 feet is recommended by the CDC) between yourself and other people outside your home, avoiding large groups, mass gatherings and crowded places. The recommendation to social […]
When “Stay Home” Means Sleeping on a Tree Branch
The concept of staying home is simple—unless you don’t have a home. Then what? As rules and regulations surrounding COVID-19 protection are being issued, children who live in trees, latrines, fields and other public places are being chased away.
The Key to Gender Equality
When you sat down at your computer this morning, you didn’t think twice about typing in the Web address you wished to visit: email, news, social media, Zoe Empower’s blog. You simply typed it in, and within a few seconds, you were there reading, scrolling, clicking your way around. But, you would have noticed if […]
We Are Grateful
Gratitude brings humility. I will forever choke up each time I sit in front of a young man or young woman and watch their eyes light up as they express their gratitude.
ZOE and Malaria Prevention
Malaria is an awful disease, debilitating at best and fatal at worst, killing nearly half a million people worldwide each year. The children who enter ZOE’s empowerment program face this threat continually and many have lost their parents to the disease. Zoe Empowers joins others as part of a global movement seeking to eliminate this scourge. […]
Support In Times of Sickness
“First I give God all thanks. Because of Zoe Empowers, I’m proud of myself because I can now go among the people. I am happy because now when I get sick or need help, I have a support system of people to help me. I am no longer alone.” Massah and her two younger siblings were […]
Defining Family After Ebola
“I now have friends and a support system of people who love me and interact with me, so I feel fine. My group, God’s Choice, feels like a family.” In 2009, before she joined the Zoe Empowers program, Bendu’s father died leaving her with her mother and two younger siblings. In 2014, tragedy struck again […]
Restoring Hope After Ebola
“Ebola took loved ones from each of us. Once they went to that big white building we never saw them again.” Zoe Empowers group, God’s Choice officially began in August 2016, only a few years after the Ebola crisis ended in Liberia. The reminders of Ebola mostly live on in the hearts and minds of those […]
Her Right to an Alternative Rite of Passage: Part 2
Nancy (in photo above) has a contagious personality, and her peers are immediately drawn to her. When the time for her Zoe Empowers working group to vote for chairperson, they didn’t hesitate to nominate her. Recently, a visiting Zoe Empowers Trip of Hope team was incredibly impressed by her poise and confidence. Nancy was born to be […]