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The People Empowerment Program (PEP) Liberia logo shows a rising sun, symbolizing hope. This is the spirit of PEP Liberia, that comes from the belief in self-empowerment.
PEPLiberia is an initiative of Liberian refugees in the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana. This camp, on a distance of about 25 miles to Accra gave shelter to more than 40.000 Liberians. In 2001 a small group of motivated people decided not to sit down. Together with SMA missionaries, they started with open air vocational trainings for the camp's youth, all on a voluntary basis. Four years later, their tireless efforts resulted in a lively training centre, offering an integrated program involving skills training for war-affected refugees, agricultural programs for women, a deaf school and refugee children assistance program.
Now there is peace in Liberia and the December 2005 elections gave the country a democratically chosen president. More and more refugees and displaced persons are returning to their home grounds. As the refugees go back to Liberia to rebuild their lives and their country, so does PEP Liberia. In 2005 the returned teachers renovated a school in Liberia with help of Stichting Vluchteling. Now the establishment of the vocational school in Paynesville is complete.
By having vocational trainings the students get empowered by their skills and spirit. The more than 1000 students who graduated the PEP vocational school since 2001 are able to provide for their own living!
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The mission of PEP Liberia is developmental. Central to this mission is to empower our target beneficiaries through access to education, increased rural outcomes and agricultural productivity, and increased employment through micro-enterprise development and entrepreneurship.
Activities leading to the achievement of our goals are formulated around four primary project clusters. These include:
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Inclusive education through the combination of formal education, vocational training, life skills and functional literacy
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Psychosocial counseling/training and HIV/AIDS education
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Increased rural outcomes and agricultural productivity for targeted communities
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Increased employment and entrepreneurship through micro-enterprise development
In crafting our project variables, we have adopted a demand-driven approach to education for self-empowerment and income generation through entrepreneurship. Our formal education program comprises both junior and senior secondary education, introduction to pre-technical skills training and life skills. Our vocational training courses are designed to tailor into beneficiaries innovative initiatives self employment and enterprising and to meet the needs of the labour market and connect beneficiaries to employment opportunities. We achieve the above through linking up vocational training providers with employers to identify jobs and fortify market-oriented activities. Agricultural approach emphasizes crop multiplication and livestock rearing to put income in the hands of small income holders.
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We hope you will have a pleasant visit on our website. Please take your time to read our story. For the future, we are full ambitions to be part of the reconstruction of our country. But we would never have been where we are now, without the support of the small PEP Liberia donor community, and without them, we would not have a future. You can help us make our dream come true. Be welcome to join us!
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