Equipping women globally to achieve physical, spiritual, intellectual and economic freedom.
-The Graceful Warrior Project
Our mission is to equip local, indigenous leaders through our four pillars of self defense:
Physical, Spiritual, Intellectual & Economic.
We believe that a holistic, well rounded and locally led approach is the key to seeing real and lasting change.
Spiritual Self Defense
Unfortunately, the Bible can be misinterpreted and how Jesus feels about us is not portrayed correctly. We are on a mission to let women know that they were created with a purpose, whether that is to be a housewife or an astronaut, Jesus has sewn such profound importance and influence into her life and it is her divine right to be able to discover that. We endeavor to create a space where Christ can show her just how loved she is by Him and the incredible value He has placed within her.
"It appears that more girls have been killed in the last fifty years precisely because they were girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the 20th century." -Sheryl WuDunn, Nicholas Kristof
Research shows us that women aged 15-44 are more likely to be maimed or die from male violence than from cancer, malaria, traffic accidents and war combined. Learning self defense not only helps set them up for success in the future, it also helps to rewrite traumatic situations that have already happened.
Our leaders meet with their groups on a weekly basis and go over basic, and fundamental self defense skills, a combination of Jiu Jitsu and Krav Maga, that are easily learned and replicated. Every week they repeat the moves they have learned and once it is retained as muscle memory, they go on to learn a new move which helps rebuild their confidence and makes them feel safer.
Intellectual Self Defense
"Investment in girls education may well be the highest return on investment available in the developing world." -Laurence Summers, Chief Economist, World Bank
We believe in sponsoring our girls to go to school because through education, comes freedom. In some cases, child marriage and Female Genital Mutilation can be avoided if the girl is enrolled in school. "If we educate and feed these girls, and give them employment opportunities, then the world as a whole will gain a new infusion of human intelligence, and poor countries will garner citizens and leaders who are better equipped to address those countries challenges." - Sheryl WuDunn, Nicholas Kristof
Economic Self Defense
"The economic implications of gender discrimination are most serious. To deny women, is to deprive a country of labor and talent. Women are the third world's greatest under utilized resource." -Sheryl WuDunn, Nicholas Kristof
At certain and carefully decided points, we must move from crisis alleviation to equipping and empowering, and by doing so, making them independent and self motivated. We believe in building safe houses where vulnerable girls can be brought to safety, complete with crops, live stock and water wells that will sustain their girls year round. We also believe in starting passive income businesses for the leaders that will cover the expenses of the girl's school fees, medical and personal needs, and their outreach missions making them fully self sustaining!
Outreach
We are a grass roots movement. We focus on empowering local leaders to empower and create new leaders underneath them in different regions throughout their countries, going on to give them the same tools and resources that they themselves have been given. While we know that we cannot help everyone, and really concern ourselves with the deep impact of the girls that God places around us, we also aim to be a bright light in the communities we are in by providing food banks, care and prayer in times of crisis to those around us.
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