Portrait of Gender Activist. Profile of B-Gifted Foundation Youth Leader and Volunteer

  

My Name is Elizabeth Brewah and I am a community activist helping women and young girls, in  my community called the Malama community. The Malama community is along Regents Road Lumley in Freetown. It is found at the tail end of a long road. It is a small community linking up different communities like

Ø Kamayama Community

Ø Kainingo Community

Ø Hill Station Extension

Ø Engine Community

Ø Juba Hill Extension

From my community and my house to be precise, you will see the Kabbasa Lodge building, the Choitram hospital and many big government buildings. My community is known to be one of the places that people experience the most rain during the raising season in Western Freetown.

I come from a small family. My mum is a teacher and has taught for over 15 years. No doubt, her career has inspired me to take up the challenge of educating and empowering young girls in my community. 

I am the last of three girls of which my elder sister is Yeatie Brewah. My second sister is Rachel Kemah Brewah. I was born on the 16^th June, 1987.

I found time to volunteer with B-Gifted whilst looking to impact others and also in search of a job. I have dreams of pursuing nursing or intending to be a lawyer someday.

At present, I am also volunteering for LIFE Sierra Leone, Kick Ebola Sierra Leone and B-Gifted , where I aim to gain experience, be exposed and create a change mostly among women and girls in my generation.

My determination to be innovative and to help young girls and women also gain the education, skills and knowledge they need to improve their lives and families comes from my belief that women can take care of families better as they are central to the development of every successful household and families. It has also led me to  spend some of my time teaching.

In my years in education and service, I was a teacher at the SOS Harmann Geirmer International School, SOS Village Beach Road Lumley. The Institution was founded by a Gernab Harmann Geirmer who had a dream of feeding, clothing and educating orphans. This vision started in the early 60s, and it is being spread in over 16 countries. It has it National Head Quarters here in Sierra Leone along beach Road and its being headed by a National Director and the School Principal.

  

I have served as their chair-lady for about two years now, co-coordinating meetings, outing and different kinds of individual and group celebrations within the country with our individual contributions. I have also promoted individual psychological counseling, problem solving among us.

I am presently involved with a set of young people from different works of life with the aim of sharing ideas together, happy moment and sad moments together. They are all engaged in different works of life. Amongst the group of young people are a video journalist, a gospel artist, a lawyer, a business man.