About Us
MOPGEL is not-for-profit, non-governmental organization (charity number MPEA/NGO/AC#0425) established on March 13, 2000 by two Liberian journalists, the late John Q. Worlloh and Mr. Hisenburg Q.Togba.
MOPGEL establishment is rooted in an idea that cultural and traditional
practices denied the girl child, women and those with disabilities
access to education and training. MOPGEL believes this situation is
restricting these group the ability to improve livelihoods, literacy and
to make a better quality of life for themselves and their families.
MOPGEL exists to minimize gender inequalities, poverty, hunger and diseases in Liberia through the provision of three key programs: Education, Economic Empowerment and the Environment.
Our vision is the creation of a just society where the fundamental human rights of all would be guaranteed under the nation's constitution and upheld-that women and men will have equal opportunities in Liberia.
MOPGEL primary constituency is the rural Communities. However, realized the illiteracy and literacy gap between rural and urban areas, this organization would work in both Communities for the empowerment of individuals.
* Promote gender equality through the length and breath of Liberia.
* Advocate for equal employment opportunities for all and work
against discrimination in all forms.
* Undertake sustained education and awareness on gender issues.
* Establish and manage Education, medical health care and Vocational
training centers throughout the fifteen political sub-divisions of the
country.
* Campaign for cleaner and healthier Environment and conserve the
Environment.
* Publish a human rights newspaper and train target beneficiaries in
media skills in order to propagate their course.
* Conduct research, monitor and publicize issues of inequality and
injustices in Liberia for adequate public awareness and action.
* Undertake dynamic activities (seminars, workshops, and educational
programs) aimed at discouraging discrimination.
* Establish a printing plant for the printing of literature and other
publications/materials intended to spread messages of gender equality,
peace, etc.
* Conduct skills training programs for war affected women, youth, men
and the vulnerable.
* Discouraged gender base violence (GBV) and promote childs rights
and protection through awareness and advocacy and to encourage girl
child education.
* Work to support the aims and objectives of existing human right
organizations.
* Advocacy for the less privilege youth in the society, for people
who have high rate of poverty, for the widows, and for the betterment of
the country.
* Organize programs and activities that promote tolerance, national
unity, and harmony between and amongst Liberian ethic groups, political
parties, social organizations and religious institutions in all regions
throughout the country.
* Engage in the planning, designing and implementation of peace
conferences, workshops, symposium, and other peace-building and
peace-sustainable forum across the length and breath of Liberia for the
purposes of discussing, preventing, and providing remedy to conflict
situations through recommendations to the government, etc.