WIPSEN-Africa's Girl Trainee Soars High.

WIPSEN-Africa's Girl Trainee Soars High.
One of the helpless trainees under the Young Girls Transformative Project in Liberia who had no hope for her future and country  has been elected the first Deputy Speaker for the Children Parliament in Liberia. Bravo!

Leymah Gbowee and the Women's Legal Centre recieve the 2009 Gruber Women's Rights Prize
Leymah Gbowee is receiving the 2009 Women's Right Prize at St. Thomas Virgin Islands on October 30th.

The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation honors contemporary individuals in the fields of Cosmology, Genetics, Neuroscience, Justice, and Women's Rights whose groundbreaking work provides new models that inspire and enable fundamental shifts in knowledge and culture.

Each award carries a gold medal and unrestricted cash prize of $500,000. 

The 2009 Gruber Women's Rights Prize goes to Leymah Gbowee and the Women's Legal Centre.

Working within the courts and existing political and cultural institutions, Leymah Gbowee and the Women's Legal Centre have helped achieve significant legal and social reforms to build peace and advance human rights for African women.

The executive director of Women in Peace and Security Network – Africa, a peacebuilding organization in West Africa, Leymah Gbowee formed a coalition of Christian and Muslim women that helped bring about an end to civil war in Liberia.