MOPGEL is currently working in Ghana at the Buduburam refugee camp and is registered under the Ghana company code of 1963 #12,666 and recognized by government of Ghana as an NGO through the Social Welfare Department D.S.W. #2340.
MOPGEL was established to join other gender equality movements around the world to break the conspiracy of silence surrounding discrimination and violence against women, children, the disabled and the youth. Since independence, over 159 years ago, adequate effort is yet to be made in Liberia to address inequalites and injustice that women and children are confronted with as part of their everyday lives.
This is coupled with the lack of vocational and skills training centers for women, the youth and the disabled, which makes our people vulnerable and burden on society. After 14 years of civil unrest, MOPGEL believes effort must be made to setup development in these areas.
To do this, it is important to stimulate sustainable initiatives for this relatively new approach: better education, vocational and skills training, advocacy, and monitoring systems are needed. Sufficient human resources must be allocated to the task and training required to raise awareness.
Against this backdrop, we are leading a campaign to integrate vocational training in Liberia's educational system. We are currently involved with a training of trainers program for Liberia in information communication technologies (ICT), beauty care, fashion design, catering and hat-craft. This campaign needs donations, volunteering and partnership.
Gender equality
This means that women and men have equal conditions for realizing their full human rights and potential to contribute to national political, economic, social and cultural development and benefit equally from the results. Equality is essential for human development and peace.
Empowerment
This allows both men and women to take control over their lives by gaining skills, setting their own agendas and building self-confidence and self-reliance. It also means that women have increased control over their lives by acquiring a voice to challenge and overcome the inequality they experience.
As you go through our website, we invite you to get involve in our initiatives through donation, volunteering and partnership. Women and disabled have the right to independent living. Women, the disabled and the youths are partners in development and have the right to equal opportunities. We encourage you to work with us to move this process forward.
Thanks for your time and God bless!
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