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WLUF Chapters
Global Projects

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The Women Like Us Foundation is dedicated to encouraging, empowering and engaging women and girls to make a difference globally and locally. This is achieved through empowering women to start their own WLUF chapter, our global projects and the One Girl at a Time Award Program for girls in their junior year of high school.

Women Like Us Foundation 2012 Campaign

Fighting Human Trafficking and Child Prostitution

The Women Like Us Foundation is proud to announce The Women Like Us Foundation 2012 Campaign: Fighting Human Trafficking and Child Prostitution, our current effort to save children from sex trafficking. Our nine-month initiative will culminate with our Annual Afternoon Tea and Speaker Series, on October 18, 2012, featuring two pioneers of children's rights.

Keynote Speaker Somaly Mam

Somaly Mam Foundation

Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2009 and a CNN Hero.

Somaly Mam is the founder of the Somaly Mam Foundation envisioning a world where women and children are safe from slavery. She was born to an impoverished tribal minority family in Cambodia-- a family that resorted to desperate means to survive. A man who posed as her grandfather sold Somaly into sexual slavery. Forced to work in a brothel along with other children, Somaly was brutally tortured and raped on a daily basis. After witnessing the murder of her best friend, Somaly heroically escaped her captors and built a new life for herself. She vowed never to forget those left behind and has since dedicated her life to saving victims and empowering survivors.

Somaly will share her incredible story about her childhood and her fight for awareness and irradication of human trafficking and child prostitution.

Former Congresswoman Linda Smith
Shared Hope International

Linda Smith is a former US congresswoman heading up an international effort to save children from being forced into prostitution. Our other speaker is a former child sex slave from Cambodia who has devoted her life to saving other victims. Linda Smith is the founder of International an organization that exists to rescue and restore women and children in crisis. Her uncompromising belief in the value of every child has carried her from leadership in her home state to the halls of Congress, and ultimately to serving victims of sex trafficking around the world.

These two women have drastically different experiences, but they fight the same evil: the exploitation of our youth. Their stories embody the vision of The Women Like Us Foundation 2012 Campaign: Fighting Human Trafficking and Child Prostitution.

WLUF is proud to align our mission with the vision of these powerful women. Please join us as we launch The Women Like Us Foundation 2012 Campaign: Fighting Human Trafficking and Child Prostitution. You can support the cause by joining us as a partner.

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We could always use the help of volunteers in multiple areas of WLUF. If you have a heart for serving others and are willing to dedicate a few hours a month this opportunity is for you!

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Women Like Us Foundation Chapters

Please see our DONATION PAGE to donate to any of our chapters.

A WLUF Chapter is the outreach arm of Women Like Us Foundation. Chapters serve to educate and engage their community while also supporting a sustainable project.

Welcome to our newest chapter:

Olivia's Cause

Olivia's cause is dedicated to providing inspiration, support and awareness to teens on anti-bullying and teen suicide prevention. At 14 yrs old, Olivia's message, "It's OK to be Different", motivates her teen audiences toward self acceptance of understanding...

Diversity Through the Arts

To help local artists in achieving their dreams by helping them accumulate funds for the projects that they would like to see manifested into reality. We would like to see the world be changed by one artist at a time.

Hollywood Chapter

The mission of the Hollywood Chapter is to give at-risk, inner-city tween girls an opportune mentorship program that enables them to build confidence and seek out all realms of success. Chapter members empower girls with interactive and enriching activities enabling them to develop their potential and blossom into Women Like Us.

Kids 4 a Cause

Kids4aCause empowers children, with the help of their families and adult volunteers, to aid disadvantaged women and their families throughout the world. Our goal is to inspire, empower and engage kids and their families to have fund raising events to help provide resources for churches, schools and villages for impovershed areas around the world.

N.A. Noel Preschool

WLU N.A. Noel Preschool Chapter is dedicated to providing quality education, including tuition, uniforms, books, and a school, as well as meals and medical treatment to the children of Rusinga Island in Kenya, Africa.

Picture Me Project

Picture Me Project provides the gift of photography to those who would not otherwise have access to having their picture taken. By documenting life's milestones, whether the birth of a new baby, school picture, family portrait or other important life events, we hope to give the gift of remembering that moment for a lifetime.

Sound of Soweto

The mission of Sound of Soweto is to provide annual funds for Soweto students to be able to attend a university to pursue the future they have dreamed about and change the cycle of poverty in their family and community.

Vibrant Life Chapter

Vibrant Life Chapter is dedicated to helping people dream like kids, without limits, to find their purpose and passion in life. They support, mentor, and provide the necessary resources to help others achieve those goals. It is taking action - and staying the course - that brings dreams to reality.

Global Projects

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Costa Rica
Carbon 1 is a small village two miles inland from Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica. It has about 300 inhabitants spread on a large area of about 1 square mile. The current primary school receives partial aid from the Government and, mainly, from the willingness of the principal/teacher as well as some of the parents of the children. Women Like Us Foundation currently supplies all required school books and unforms for the 21 students enrolled in the school. The goal is to provide a second teacher for the school to teach English and oversee a new library plus build a community center on the property.

India
Ramana’s Garden: Dr. Prabhavati Dwabha formed Ramana’s Garden Home for destitute children in Rishikesh, India approximately 15 years ago as a result of her spiritual practice on the banks of the River Ganga. WLUF supports the children with clothes, books, computer, and health services when needed.

Serbia
Despite that Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princesses Katherine of Serbia lived for many years in exile; Princess Katherine always had her country in her heart. During the difficult years through her hard work she provided a very large amount of humanitarian aid, which was distributed throughout the former Yugoslavia regardless of religion or ethnic origin. Her Royal Highness believes that there are no borders in suffering. WLUF is currently involved in getting mammograms donated and funding raised to send to Serbia.

Uganda
The Shanti Uganda Society improves the physical, emotional and spiritual well being of communities impacted by war, poverty and HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Natalie Angell, co-founder and Executive Director, is following her path towards holistic midwifery. A new birthing center in rural Uganda was built and opened in January 2011. Our goal is to continue supporting the efforts at the birthing center. WLUF also supports the very needy New Hope School and Orphanage in Entebee,Uganda.

Oglala Sioux Tribe, South Dakota
The SuAnne Big Crow Boys and Girls Club was established upon the death of a Sioux Indian girl named SuAnne Big Crow.SuAnne Big Crow was a star in every way. She was an outstanding athlete, especially in basketball. One of SuAnne’s visions was the establishment of a facility for the youth on Pine Ridge; a safe, supportive place that was free of drugs and alcohol, jealousy and violence; a place where everybody got along and people were proud of each other. When other youth were discouraged, SuAnne told them of this vision and called the place she saw “Happytown.” After the shock of her tragic death in an automobile accident in 1992, her courageous family and the community decided to take action on SuAnne’s vision by founding the SuAnne Big Crow Boys and Girls Club. WLUF supports the development and growth of these children.