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The Women & Children’s Advocacy Centre brings people, resources, training and information together for the benefit of women and children at risk. We are committed to bring change through working with others in hope and interdependence.  

We are a non-profit organization based in Portland, Oregon that partners with grassroots organizations around the world working with women and children at risk.  Our mission is to empower these small but critical initiatives to be successful in their work among the most vulnerable in society.

We have seen, too many times, that these programs in developing nations where there is great need often fail within the first two years, usually as a result of lack of funding, training, resources and staff.  We want to see the success of these programs by providing them with the training, connections, and resources we have access to, empowering them to be effective within their own communities and context.

 Alice’s Story

Alice is from Kenya and cares deeply about the children in her community; so she started a home for AIDS orphans.  However, soon the reality of the workload, emotional and financial costs of keeping it running weighed heavily on her.  Without a good support structure in place, she had nowhere to turn and realized she couldn’t go on.  She had to watch the orphans return to streets and a life of exploitation while wrestling with her feelings of failure. Unfortunately, this is a common story.

With 60% of ministries to women and children at risk failing within two years, there are painful consequences for the most vulnerable in society.

Will you join us in lowering this failure rate? Our goal is to help as many of these amazing initiatives as possible succeed long-term as they work daily to see women and children empowered.

The purpose of the Women & Children’s Advocacy Centre is to partner with the Alices who work at a grass-roots level with or on behalf of women and children at risk.  We facilitate training, relationships, resources and connections to encourage and empower these practitioners and, in so doing promote environments that are in the best interest of women and children in their communities.