A women group under the banner “the United Women for Peace and Reconciliation” has held a mass rally to raise funds to support Girl’s education in Monrovia and its environs.

Speaking at program marking the United Women Empowerment Fund Drive held over the weekend in the Philippians Baptist Church in Lower Virginia, the President of the United Women for Peace and Reconciliation, Edna Wilson, said they were now trying to leave from one stage to another and not only to give money or loans to its members, but promised that this time around, they will help the less fortunate, particularly girls children who want to go to school.  He said they will make sure to provide them what he called “little scholarship” to put them in school.

Mrs. Wilson said funds generated would be used for the girl’s children to go to school while they will also use some of it to buy them copybooks, pencils and do other things for people who are living in the Banjor Community.  “Because we are spreading all over now to reach out to other women in Monrovia, even-though we are from Banjor, our dreams are not only limited  to  Banjor, we are carrying this initiative around” She said.

She said they would also anticipate in helping the boys children in similar manner in order for them to go to school saying “we can not only focus our attention on girls, even though it is good to train a girl child or educate a girl child, but we equally need to help boys children too who can also be trained as husbands and as such, we are trying in our own rich to help the boys” She said.

Giving a brief history of the United Women for Peace and Reconciliation at the fund raising rally, Mrs. Wilson said when they first started the  organization, they were women who  virtually gathered from nowhere, but today they can say that they have reach somewhere.

She stated that when the war came and subsequently stopped, they came back and saw that women were suffering and most importantly,   their vulnerability increased. For this, she added, they decided to come together as women so that they will be able to help one another and that’s how they started the organization.

The United Women for Peace and Reconciliation President averred that the ideas came right after the 2003 last round of civil war in Monrovia, then in 2005, they came together as a group instead of them sitting down idly and waiting for someone to give them support, when in fact, they as women had also lose their husbands and loved ones and at the same time, all of their businesses had been lost or gone.