Formidable Initiatives for Women and Girls, Liberia Inc.

29/07/2026

Big shout out to our newest top fans! 💎 Rotis Kanswen

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06/07/2026

𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨. 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙨. 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙨. 🌳✨

During a recent Girls Rising mentorship session, we invited each girl to create her own Vision Tree. The activity was simple, but the conversations were profound.
The roots represented the values that keep them grounded. The trunk represented the strength that will help them stand through life's challenges. The branches and leaves represented the dreams they are reaching toward.

One ten-year-old girl's Vision Tree touched our hearts.
🌱 Her roots: • God first • Sacrifice • Hard work
🌳 Her trunk: "I want to become someone in the future."
🍃 Her branches: • I want to become a doctor. • I want to make sure the truth comes out. • I want to give to people. • I want to care for my family.

At just ten years old, she already understands something many adults spend years learning: great dreams grow from strong values.
Dreams don't begin with success. They begin with character. They are nurtured by faith, perseverance, and a willingness to keep growing even when no one is watching.
This is the heart of Girls Rising.

At Formidable Initiatives for Women and Girls (FIWG), Liberia, we are creating safe spaces where girls can discover their voices, define their values, dream boldly, and believe that their future matters.
One mentorship session at a time, we are helping girls put words to the dreams they already carry inside them.

Every dream deserves a place to grow, and every girl deserves people who believe in her before the world does.

Follow our journey as we continue to share the voices, dreams, and growth of the incredible girls in the Girls Rising Cohort.

Together, we're growing girls who know their worth.

20/06/2026

Early this week during a Girls Rising mentorship session, our girls read out their responses from the homework challenge given to them two weeks earlier. They had been asked to write down three things they appreciate about themselves. It could be a strength, a talent, a good choice they made, or something they achieved.

Many spoke about their strengths and talents, but two responses stood out.

One girl shared how much she values her ability to help others. She finds joy in showing compassion to people in need.

Another spoke with remarkable confidence, saying she does not have to explain her worth for others to accept it. She knows who she is, is grateful for how God made her, and is comfortable in her own value.

Both responses were powerful, but the second one carried something many adults are still searching for. So many people spend their lives waiting for others to confirm what they should already know about themselves. And here was a young girl who had already settled that question.

This is exactly what the FIWG Reimagined Girls Rising cohort was built for. One of the greatest gifts we can give young people is not just talent, intelligence, or achievement, but an unshakable understanding of their own worth. When they know their worth, they are less likely to seek validation from the wrong places and more likely to walk confidently in their purpose.

After the session, as the rain fell and the ground flooded around us, the girls stayed and wrote down their next assignment. They did not rush and they did not want to leave.😃

09/06/2026

FIWG has always believed that women cannot advocate for their rights without access to information. That includes information about their own bodies and what they put on them every day.

Today our Founder and Executive Director, Ernree Bee Neeplo, published a commentary in FrontPage Africa connecting hair and beauty product safety to the broader conversation about women's health in Liberia. The piece draws on peer-reviewed research, names the regulatory gap, and calls on health authorities, clinicians, and civil society to take this issue seriously.

A formal policy brief is in preparation and will be submitted to the LMHRA, the Ministry of Health, and NPHIL.

This is gender and public health work in action.

Read the article and share widely.

Research is raising important questions about chemicals in the hair and beauty products African women use every day. In Liberia, that conversation has not yet

08/03/2026

International Women’s Day 2026

At Formidable Initiatives for Women and Girls, we believe that when girls are empowered with knowledge, confidence, and opportunity, they grow into women who transform communities, economies, and nations.

Across Liberia and around the world, women continue to demonstrate extraordinary strength, resilience, and leadership in the face of challenges. Their voices, ideas, and actions are shaping a more just and inclusive future.
International Women’s Day is not only a celebration of women’s achievements. It is also a call to continue investing in the next generation of girls, ensuring they have access to education, mentorship, leadership opportunities, and safe spaces to discover their purpose.

When we empower girls, we strengthen families.
When we support women’s leadership, we strengthen societies.

Today and every day, Formidable Initiatives for Women and Girls remains committed to nurturing confident, capable, and courageous girls who will lead positive change in their communities.

Happy International Women’s Day.

12/02/2026

WID Liberia Network Women Spotlight Series

👩🏾‍⚕️Development Spotlight

Dr. Bernice T. Dahn
Former Minister of Health, Republic of Liberia
Vice President for Health Sciences, University of Liberia

Across Liberia’s health sector recovery and transformation, women have played critical roles in rebuilding systems, strengthening institutions, and shaping national health policy architecture. Dr. Bernice T. Dahn represents a generation of technical leadership that helped move Liberia’s health sector from crisis response toward long term system resilience and institutional stability.

As a physician, public health leader, academic administrator, and national policy architect, Dr. Dahn has contributed to rebuilding Liberia’s healthcare infrastructure following years of civil conflict and the devastating Ebola epidemic. Her leadership across government, academia, and global health partnerships has helped shape the foundation of Liberia’s modern health system.

During Liberia’s Ebola response and recovery period, Dr. Dahn played a central role in coordinating national response protocols, strengthening infection prevention standards, and transitioning the country from emergency response to long term system investment through the Investment Plan for Building a Resilient Health System. This national roadmap strengthened workforce development, infrastructure planning, and epidemic preparedness systems that continue to shape Liberia’s health sector today.

One of her most transformative contributions has been the professionalization of community health systems. Through the National Community Health Assistant Policy, Liberia transitioned from fragmented volunteer models to a standardized, trained, and compensated community health workforce, expanding primary healthcare access to remote populations and strengthening national service delivery equity.

Dr. Dahn has also played a critical role in strengthening Liberia’s health workforce pipeline. Her leadership supported the establishment of Liberia’s first postgraduate medical residency programs and national workforce strategies designed to rebuild specialist capacity following years of conflict and workforce shortages.

Her contribution to the vision and development of the National Public Health Institute of Liberia helped strengthen national disease surveillance, outbreak preparedness, and epidemiological response systems, reinforcing the role of strong public health institutions in national security and development stability.

Beyond national policy leadership, Dr. Dahn has contributed to global development dialogue through advocacy for donor alignment with national health priorities and local ownership of health research and data. Her work has helped advance conversations around country led development planning and accountability in global health partnerships.

Today, through her academic leadership at the University of Liberia, Dr. Dahn continues to shape Liberia’s future health workforce through medical education reform, the establishment of the School of Public Health, and the expansion of midwifery training, strengthening Liberia’s human capital pipeline for long term health system sustainability.

Beyond policy and institutional leadership, Dr. Dahn’s career reflects a model of public service grounded in technical excellence, accountability, and national commitment. Her leadership during some of Liberia’s most challenging public health periods demonstrated not only professional competence, but personal courage, integrity, and responsibility to national service. Her work continues to influence how Liberia approaches health system strengthening, workforce development, and country led development planning.

Health systems are not separate from development. They are foundational to economic stability, human capital development, social protection, and national resilience. Leaders like Dr. Dahn demonstrate how technical expertise, institutional leadership, and evidence based policy design contribute to sustainable development outcomes.

At Women in Development Liberia Network, we recognize women whose expertise, leadership, and service continue to shape Liberia’s development landscape across sectors. Visibility strengthens influence, and influence strengthens systems.

Women in Development Liberia Network is a national network of women experts and professionals shaping Liberia’s development.

Follow our page to learn more about the women whose work, leadership, and expertise are shaping how development priorities are designed and implemented across Liberia.

11/10/2025

✨ Every girl carries within her the power to shape a brighter future.
When she is seen, heard, and supported, she rises boldly, brilliantly, and beautifully.
Today, we celebrate girls who dream, lead, and transform their world. 💫

22/08/2025

🌟 Join the Movement - Volunteer with Us! 🌟

Hello Everyone 👋

As we expand our work to empower women, girls, and youth across Liberia, we are opening opportunities for passionate volunteers to join our team.

We are looking for individuals who can support in areas such as:
🟠 Program Management
🟠 Social media and communications
🟠 Event planning and community outreach
🟠 Research and documentation
🟠 Mentorship and youth engagement
🟠 Administration and logistics support

✨ What’s in it for you?

A chance to be part of meaningful social change.

Skill-building and networking opportunities.

Recognition, certificate of service.and potential for full employment

👉 If you are interested, kindly fill out this short form to sign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14SG8Z32RQGjFgnUQlAz_hr9gt2mN7BcPi7v4gHRf4Rg/edit

Together, let’s create a Liberia where women, girls, and youth thrive. 💜