WOMEN'S EDUCATION PROJECT

Daughters from poor families, who lack funds to pay for education, often resign themselves to low-paying and frequently unsafe jobs and/or early marriages. Trapped in poverty, suffering from malnourishment, and prey to trafficking and AIDS, their hopes are lost and their potential is wasted.

For those who manage to pursue an education, the challenges can be daunting: congested homes in noisy neighborhoods, water shortages, power cuts, pollution, and disease are some of the major obstacles. To succeed in the classroom, students require academic preparation, quiet study space, and money to pay tuition, books, and bus fare. Their parents, uneducated themselves, often find they are unable to help their daughters navigate the system. For many of these young women, the struggles are insurmountable, and despite career dreams, they drop out.

WEP believes that as they pursue education and careers, young women realize their worth, lift their families out of poverty, inspire others and create lasting social change.

Women’s Education Project provides scholarships and a holistic academic and life skills curriculum to young, underprivileged women who are dedicated to higher education and careers.

Women, of 18 to 22 years of age, come to WEP to qualify for college scholarships and enhance their language and study skills. They participate in college classrooms, set goals, and discover their talents.

WEP students thrive in the creative and comfortable learning atmosphere, where experienced teachers and small class size encourage participation.

WEP holistically addresses poverty-related problems. Students take courses on nutrition, women’s health, environment, water management, and conflict resolution to prepare themselves mentally and physically for college, career and life.

Today, our alumnae, 100% of whom are first generation college students, are teachers, computer specialists, health workers, and entrepreneurs. They are true pioneers.

WEP students graduate with knowledge, confidence, and goals and have a lively awareness of life’s possibilities. They bring to the workforce communication skills, computer literacy, and awareness of financial, environmental and international issues, as well as public health and hygiene. Above all, they contribute to their community – a community newly aware of their worth.