Zoe Empowers

Empowering orphaned children and vulnerable youth-led families to permanently move beyond charity.

In places of greatest poverty worldwide tens of millions of youth-led families struggle to survive, often without the help or guidance of an adult. They face oppressive issues daily such as lack of food and clothing, inadequate shelter, abuse, trafficking, loneliness, hopelessness and feeling abandoned by God. Zoe participants have described themselves as feeling more like dogs than human children before participating in Zoe’s program. These youth-led families comprise one of the largest ongoing humanitarian crises of our age.

Over the course of three years, Zoe participants move from abject poverty to sustainable self-sufficiency, across every area of life, while knowing they are not beyond the love of God.  Areas of empowerment include housing, food security, health & hygiene, human rights/child protection, formal education and vocational training, business creation, community reintegration, family reunification and spiritual strength. Zoe accomplishes empowerment by partnering with local communities to provide access to the resources, training and support these young people need to survive.

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In Zoe’s program, 95%+ of the young participants graduate fully self-sufficient after three years.  This means they are food secure, have safe housing, know their human rights and how to enforce them, have access to health care and practice good hygiene and nutrition, can access formal education and/or vocational training, have diversified businesses providing steady income to their family, are respected members of the community, know they are not beyond the love of God and actively assist others in their community.  Zoe tracks internal data on each Zoe Empowerment group to see how they have improved in these areas over time.  Zoe also regularly opens the program to external research, verifying the results we see in our internal data.

In addition to the young people in Zoe’s program moving from extreme poverty to sustainable self-sufficiency, Zoe also expects to see the entire community assisted by the program.  By moving hundreds of young people over a three-year period from begging for food or work, and in some cases stealing food to survive, to becoming business owners and employers providing needed goods and services in their community, assisting those in need and advocating for the most vulnerable, Zoe’s program changes entire communities economically, socially and spiritually.

Gaston Warner
919-414-4167
Gaston.warner@zoeempowers.org

Zoe Empowers
919-779-7272
info@zoeempowers.org