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Introduction

Rebecca Falika: Founder & Executive Director FAYWEC Center

FAYWEC, (Falika African Youth and Women Empowerment Center), was established in 2006, in the City of Brewerville, Liberia by Ms. Rebecca Falika, to serve displaced youth and abused women as result of the Liberian civil conflict in which over 250, 000 Liberians were killed. This included many husbands and fathers who were normally the breadwinners in the family. Many survivors lost all their worldly possessions. These sad and despicable events forced many young people in Liberia into destitution and homelessness. Ms. Falika, an African fashion designer, whose parents hailed from Gbarpolu County, northern Liberia, attended the Lott Carey Baptist Mission School in Brewerville, Montserrado County. She returned to Brewerville, Monterrado County, after 35 years in the United States, Discouraged and disappointed to see the condition that her country was in, especially Brewerville, the city where she grew up, the dream for FAYWEC Empowerment Center was born. Never foorgetting where she went to school and grew up, she decided to give back to her childhood community by focusing on helping the most venerable population in and around Brewerville.

The foundation of the building process started in June and concluded in August, 2010. Next, the foundation backfilling (dirt put into the layout) was completed. As of April 2011, the casting (cemented) of foundation was laid. From May-July 2011 The elevation of the building was finally completed in May 2011. Between July-September 2011 plank sticks and WAWA were in place. Our challenge now is completing the roofing area (70 X 179) for the 10,500 sq ft. building. The iron bars for the windows and doors still remain to be done before those persons we serve can begin to use the Center and benefit from its services. In May 2011 FAYWEC built a 1,500 sq. ft. community center that we are currently conducting limited programs in until we finish the Education and Training Center building.

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Background Music: "Merry Go Round" By Johnny Nash

The City of Brewerville’s population has grown to 70,000; with over 27,000 of them children since the war. They have no access to basic social services due to the lack of such services in the city. The FAYWEC Center now sreves over 500 youth, plus women who come to the center daily. Many of these women have no education and thus no skills to deal with the ever changing, challenging and expensive world. The purpose of the FAYWEC Center is to reach out to these women to help provide them with skills that will enable them to fend for themselves. With the many ills, especially diseases, that come with poverty, the dream of Ms. Falika is to reach out to as many such women and children as possible to interrupt the negative challenges that they constantly encounter in their daily lives.

At the present, the FAYWEC Center is overwhelmed by those in need of basic services within the City of Brewerville. In order to effectively help them, FAYWEC has embarked on a very ambitious project to build a new building to host all the activities of the FAYWEC Center. It will hold about 2,500 Liberians who will participate in vocational training and various life-sustaining skills to prepare them for the growing challenges that lie ahead of them. To meet these challenges and the expectations raised among the people of Brewerville, FAYWEC Center is now seeking financial donations to complete and equip the new multi-service FAYWEC Center.

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