Women’s Power Hour (WPH), as a move to position women to rise to high heights, is set to celebrate its 11th year anniversary of building women and girls across the world.
The celebration, with the theme: ‘Breaking barriers for new heights,’ will feature the launching of the book titled: ‘Monitoring for Greatness – M4G Workbook’, May 21, 2022 in Freetown.
Group Pioneer, Regina Peters-Moore said to nurture, groom and build great women for God in this generation and upcoming ones, WPH started with eight women in the UK and later transferred its headquarters to Sierra Leone where she noticed women have various challenges.
She said they started with writing strong articles for and about women, and hosting talk shows on radio stations, talking to women, focusing on educating, encouraging and motivating women to walk in their high places; and helping ordinary women to become extraordinary for God in their nations.
She said that WPH now do groundwork in Sierra Leone, Gambia and Malawi, reaching out to women through the radio, publication of life changing articles.
She said WPH helps to position women to succeed in their homes, their visions, careers and other areas of their lives, adding that they raise people to greatness by mentoring women and girls including tomorrow’s women; taking prostitutes out of the streets; bringing hope to women behind bars; supporting women in ministries, and giving skills to women and girls for self-reliance.
Mrs. Peters-Moore went on that WPH started in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2011 with a mandate to build grate women, starting with writing strong articles online for and about women, and to date, it has established 7 centres in Freetown and 2 in Kono and Makeni.
She said: “We do not only do mentoring, we also have every week Rehab Squad visiting streets to mentor prostitutes. I believe we have reached out to over 500 prostitutes, or they’ve heard the gospel from us from 2016 to date. The Correctional Arm that ministered to women in prison and because it is expensive, so we do it yearly. When some of them are released they are sent to us and we fund to a new life,” she said.
Giving a rundown on the celebration, Mrs. Peters-Moore said on May 27, they will have a Zoom online programme that will deal with abuse and domestic violence. This, she said, will discuss and see how WPH will empower and help women who are going through domestic violence but do not know the way out.
She said on May 29, they will hold thanksgiving ceremony at Mersy House, Off Syke Street in Freetown.