ABOUT US
Our Identity - Who We Are
CONDI is a grassroots nonprofit and non-governmental organization with
Headquarters in Liberia, West Africa. Besides being registered in Liberia, CONDI is also registered in the United Kingdom, Sierra Leone and is also a
501c3 tax exempt
nonprofit organization registered in the United States of America.
Our Mission - What We Do
CONDI ‘s Mission stands on five (5) developmental pillars to adequately provide and transform the lives of the less fortunate and vulnerable women and children especially those in slum and least developed communities through several opportunities; namely: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Food Security and Nutrition, Capacity Building, Women & Children Protection, Welfare & Empowerment and ICT Training
Our Vision for Change
That one day, every woman and child - even in the most remote areas of this nation – will attain improved access to food, clean drinking water, a safer community, and excellent education.
We work with hard-to-reach-rural communities, women, youth groups, and individuals
We love what we do and it shows. With years of experience in the field, we understand and know our beneficiaries like the back of our hands. There’s no challenge too big or too small and we dedicate our utmost energy to every project and or program we take on.
CONDI is a grassroots nonprofit and non-governmental Organization with Headquarters in Liberia, West Africa. Besides being registered in Liberia, CONDI is also registered in the United Kingdom, Sierra Leone and is also a 501c3 tax exempt
nonprofit organization registered in the United States of America, with EIN 84-3180148.
CONDI ‘s Mission stands on five (5) developmental pillars to adequately provide and transform the lives of the less fortunate and vulnerable women and children especially those in slum and least developed communities through several opportunities; namely: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Food Security and Nutrition, Capacity Building, Women & Children Protection, Welfare & Empowerment and ICT Training. CONDI is among the NGOs promoting poverty focused strategies and programs in Liberia.
CONDI's Vision is that one day, every woman and child - even in the most remote areas of a nation – will attain improved access to food, clean drinking water, a safer community, and excellent education.
A synopsis of CONDI's five pillars of development
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
- CONDI is working to provide enhanced and sustained Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and environmental services through innovative and creative service delivery mechanism. Program services cover institutional and organizational development support, capacity building, research and knowledge management services that meet end users’ expectations in keeping with universal declaration on the Sustainable Development.
CONDI, with support from The Last Well, an International Faith based Nonprofit organization based in the United States of America, constructed 46 new hand pumps and rehabilitated 39 hand pumps in 61 communities in 6 counties. These hand pumps provide safe drinking water to at least a combined 23,446 residents.
Food Security and Nutrition
- CONDI works to build self-reliance, food security and justice in Liberia by:
- Engaging and encouraging rural and urban agriculture.
- Influencing public policy.
- Promoting healthy eating;
- Collecting, storing and distributing additional food and supplies to local agencies, and international charitable organizations and meal programs; and,
- Encouraging cooperative buying and directing youth and women towards careers in food-related fields.
Women & Children Protection, Welfare & Empowerment
- Under this initiative, we implement services and programs which protect and promote the welfare of all women and children. We execute projects which prevent the neglect, abuse, or exploitation of women and children – and we also support at-risk families through services which allow children, where appropriate, to remain with their families or return to their families in a timely manner. CONDI is working with several women groups to support women acquire several marketable and life-sustaining skills. CONDI also have women involving in agriculture in rural Liberia.
CONDI & Days for Girls Partnership Meeting in Accra
The Executive Director and Donor Relations Manager of the Contemporary Development Initiatives (CONDI) Habakkuk Watara Sackor
and Lorraine Dunn Anderson, accompanied by few other staff of CONDI
met with Miss Sandra Boakye, the West Africa Director of Days for Girls
in July 2021, had a fruitful and rewarding discussion which led to a progressive partnership on how to introduce the reusable sanitary pads to end period poverty issues amongst rural girls in Liberia.
Days for Girls Ghana, for over several years have been in the production and distribution of safe, hygienic washable and reusable sanitary pads and products to help reduce period poverty in West Africa.
This project aims to strengthen local communities by enabling and empowering girls to more consistent access to education and improving the knowledge base amongst Liberian women about their reproductive health and shedding light on avenues for them to achieve a better quality of life. This project is in alignment with CONDI’s current over-arching program ‘Ending Period Poverty’ under the Sit-A-Child program which aims to Restore Hope and Share Love with Disadvantaged Children in Deprived Communities.
Team CONDI
was taken on a tour of the production and packaging site where we were educated how the pads are produced. The materials used are safe, hygienic and pose no health threat to the female's intimate areas. We were amazed at the level of dedication, passion and carefulness the workers put into their work. As each worker explains his/her role, you see the joy and passion they expressed by the step-by-step display of how each item is produced and packaged. They tell you how it brings them joy knowing their hard work is bringing smiles to rural girls.
It is with this same passion, and beyond that CONDI wishes to introduce to Liberia, the need to minimize and/or eradicate period poverty, especially in rural areas, to bring dignity to girls during menstruation.
Through partnership with Days for Girls (DfG), we will carry-out an initial project stage that will provide girls in impoverished and slum areas of Monrovia and other nearby rural counties’ cities with access to sanitary products (Reusable Sanitary Pads). This initial stage of the project aims to build relationships with communities and build the platform for scaling the project-up in the second stage. The aim and goal of this initial stage is to provide access to basic sanitary products to school-girls so that they can consistently go to school and close the gender gap in social justice in regard to education.
Ending period poverty is a MUST, with the assistance of likeminded individuals together can be achieved. The girl child need not stay home from school or other outdoor activities just because she's on her monthly natural flow.
