An organization known as ‘Zogos WeCare’, for the rehabilitation of street girls, has begun its work at its Front Street offices in Monrovia.
The Executive Director of Zogos WeCare, Pastor Caleb Dormah explained that his organization was established with the aim of helping to take female Zogos from the street and train them with different skills that could help them to better change their lives.
Pastor Dormah said, “Zogos WeCare has a program called Star Girls and our first target is called the Sheela Logan Star Girls Empowerment and Consoling program. It is for street girls and girls who are challenged in many ways, because we know that a lot of these girls live by being in the streets at night and doing drugs, so we thought it wise to bring them together to teach them to use their hand and heads, instead of their bodies.
Pastor Dormah stressed that the school offers variety of skills that their students are learning, like pastry, tailoring, soap making, tiding, detergent, and many, many more, and each of the students can decide which of the areas she has an interest in and she will be given the chance to be trained in that area.
He explained, “It all started with my belief that, out of the ghettos, Liberia would rise again, and with the belief that our children have the capacity to excel if we challenge them. So, we started some time ago when we moved to do ministry in the ghettos, and I found the best of our children moving in the ghettos, so we had to reach out to them, to witness to them, to bring them back to society, and help to make them good citizens who will give back to society.”
He elaborated that his school currently has 20 students and they are there for eight months of training, and three out of the 20 students are little girls and they have planned to send the three little girls to an elementary school during the next school year, but the rest of the 17 students will get employment from the same school they are now learning their respective skills from after graduation.
Pastor Dormah described the responses they are getting from the students as very encouraging, because they have continued to come to class on time and none of them has been absent from class since the organization started the training process, and called on them to keep on their learning process.
The president for Star Girls,Veronica T. Lincoln, described the Zogo WeCare training process as very great, and that she has learned a lot in the catering area she is learning from since the training started, and hopes to learn more as the training continues, promising to continue to put into use what she is learning from the school.
The Vice president for Star Girls, Wolomina B. Koffa, said she is undergoing training in the field of tailoring, and explained that she is learning tailoring to be able to live on it and be able to help her and her family members, and she promised to learn tailoring to the best of her ability so that she will be able to train others who are having passion for tailoring.
Star Girls’ Secretary General, Reta K. Boley, paid tribute to the Executive Director of Zogos WeCare, Pastor Dormah, and other members of his staff, for providing such opportunity for them which is free of charge, assuring the leadership that she will learn to the best of her knowledge in the field of tailoring because she is of the confidence that what she is learning from the school would surely help to improve her and her family members’ lives.
