About Us
Life Initiatives for Empowerment (LIFE) is a women-led, non-profit, non-governmental, and non-partisan organization dedicated to fostering a resilient, equitable, and inclusive Somalia. Its establishment followed by an assembly meeting held on November 4, 2017, in Alberta, Canada, where a group of Somali diaspora women gathered to discuss the devastating drought and manmade crisis that threatened nearly 2.5 million lives in Somalia. From this meeting, LIFE emerged as a women-led organization dedicated to providing both immediate humanitarian assistance and long-term programs addressing gender inequality, gender-based violence, and social exclusion. LIFE operates at the intersection of humanitarian assistance and long-term development. Our mission is to empower the most vulnerable; women, children, youth, and persons with disabilities by providing critical services, advocating for their rights, dignity, and building community capacity to achieve sustainable change.
OUR VISION
An environment where women are free from all forms of inequalities, violence, and harmful practices, and are active participants in leadership, economic growth, and social sectors, with their contributions to society fully realized.
OUR MISSION
To promote Somali women’s participation in leadership, economic growth, and policy decision-making. We provide capacity-building and empowerment programs to enable women to contribute significantly to society and play a major role in leadership, entrepreneurship, and politics, while maintaining accountability to all stakeholders.
CORE VALUES
We envision LIFE as an institution characterized by the following values:
a) Accountability to our stakeholders through their ownership of and involvement in the work of the organization.
b) Promoting transparency, openness, freedom of social responsibility.
c) Empowerment, Equality of opportunity, and Feminist principles integrated in the development and implement in on of our programmes.
d) Professionalism that adds value to the challenges of redefining human security and peace-building by establishing a knowledge base of lessons that can be shared across class and gender divides.
e) Humility in the course of work and respect for diverse views.
Where We Work
