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"Turning Frowns into Smiles"  


BACKGROUND OF CONCISE

Established in August 2013, the Concerted Initiative for Self-Empowerment (CONCISE) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that works with the youth and women to holistically address issues affecting their livelihood. The founding members, Harrison T. Tiah and Wilson G. Chear, started the initiative based on strong convictions to lift youth and women out of vulnerability and poverty.

 

   Harrison T. Tiah has 8 years of experience working with international development organizations on education programs. He has lived his life with strong principles surrounding the need to give back to the community that raised and educated him. As a result, he has offered his social work skills and development experience to the community. He started by volunteering to teach refugee children in exile. He served as classroom teacher for 12 years and a teacher’s trainer for 4 years. Harrison T. Tiah believes that youth and women’s empowerment in the South East and Grand Gedeh in particular was long overdue and it was time for him to take action. He appreciates the fact that poor youth and women have answers to their poverty situations only if facilitated to bring out their abilities. He believed in building partnerships with the community, individuals and institutions for value addition. “I am proud to be a co-founder of the Concerted Initiative for Self-Empowerment” a dream I have lived for, I followed by heart you too can make it happen” says Harrison T. Tiah.

 

Wilson Chear on founding CONCISE

Wilson Chear has many years of teaching experience as a classroom teacher and a school administrator. He has a background rooted in business management and finance but his passion for development work superseded a corporate career.  He noted that the strength of character shining through the youth and women of the South East was enough to convince him that the assistance of a skilled and committed development arm was necessary for those youth and women to experience the liberties associated with empowerment.