Empower Women, Transform Lives:
Support the Women’s Self Reliance Program

In the heart of Haiti, women walk hours to bring their children to school. While they wait, they’re not just passing the time—they’re transforming their futures through the help of the Women’s Self Reliance Program (WSRP).

The WSRP is has dedicated itself to empowering women by teaching them to garden sustainably, grow their own crops, and raise chickens. Through education, seed distribution, and support for intensive square-foot gardening, the WSRP enables women to provide fresh vegetables and economic stability for their families.

Your donation fuels this life-changing work, helping women gain independence, improve their nutrition, and build a brighter future for their children. Join us in empowering women and strengthening communities.

Contribute now

Or to contribute by check, please write it to: Global Coalition for Peace and mail to 4217 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814. For your convenience, a recurring monthly or quarterly gift can be mailed together in a batch pre-dated accordingly such as first day of the month, and will be deposited at that time.

What Is the Women’s Self-Reliance Program?

Mission Statement

The purpose of this program is to help women in economically depressed situations to lift themselves up. We do this by bringing them information and courses of action which, when used in conjunction with their own skills and knowledge, will help them to provide a healthier and more comfortable life for themselves and their families. Information in the areas of nutrition, intensive vegetable gardening andmicro-enterprise are offered.

Overview

The nutrition segment provides a basic knowledge of our nutritional needs and how to meet those needs with the foods that are available to the women participating in the program, supplementing their existing menu, where necessary, with foods that will provide whatever nutrients that have been missing from their diet.

The gardening method offered is an intensive gardening program, which has been developed under the names Square Foot Gardening, Square Meter Gardening and Global Grid Gardening. This method of growing, when combined with the use of organic and natural soil preparations and seeds, can contribute significantly to a family’s fresh food needs even in areas where there is very little arable land available.

The micro-enterprise segment concentrates on providing information that relates to operating a very small business, in other words, the basic skills of self-employment.

It is the intention of this program to respect, honor and learn from the people with whom we share the information we have gathered. We fully expect to learn as much, if not more, than we offer. It is our hope that whatever of value that we are able to bring to the situation will be shared with others who will in turn benefit. It is also our intention to take what we learn from the participants and integrate it into our program, thereby making it a living, growing, ever-improving product.

We have much to learn from one another and it is only through mutual respect and appreciation that we will be able to co-create a better world.