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Although our first projects reach back to October 2012, Women InSpirit, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit

organization, has been incorporated since February 2015. This ministry started when founder, Maribeth Anderson, 

on a trip to Ghana in 2012,  met a single unmarried young woman with a young child and her desire to help educate countless single teen mothers in the Upper East Region of Ghana. A desperate need was seen and a desire to fulfill it was born. Through that original seed, Women InSpirit’s mission has evolved. We are a board of 7 women, mostly educators, who believe and desire to make a bold productive impact on the lives of young women in abject poverty through education and small business prospects. 

We are presently serving over 143 students ages 4 to 32.

Since 2012 WIS:

• has educated 10 girls through junior high school 
• has given countless microloans to set up a business 
• has provided educational material and speakers for Dorcas’ NGO, Dakella Youth Mothers Organization, an organization that supports unwed teen mothers
• has established Legacy Academy, a 2-classroom elementary school for the 110 children of basket weavers in Sherigu, Ghana. 
• has educated 5 young women at KNUST (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology) in Kumasi, Ghana. 
• has educated 7 girls, ages 3 through 32 in nursery/preschool (daughter of college student), elementary, junior high, high school and college in Bolgatanga, Ghana. 
• has established 3 tailoring schools in which 40 young girls are learning to sew: In Accra slums of Agbogbloshie- A Time to Sew Tailoring School, Women InSpirit Tailoring School in Bolgatanga, and JayNii Tailoring School in Jamestown on the southern coast of Ghana. (* NOTE: JayNii was tragically demolished in May 2020 by contractors bought out by local government. JayNii will recover their property in 2023, so our plans for a new sewing school is on hold for now.)
• has fundraised yearly through an annual fund, annual fundraising event, grants, markets, private donations, memorials, and Speak 'n Sells (home shows, women’s organizations, farmer’s market)