Disabled Children and Female Empowerment Network (DCFE Network)

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The Disabled Children and Female Empowerment Network (DCFENETWORK, INC.), is a non-for-profit and nongovernmental organization established in May 2018 to advocate for women and children with different form of disabilities, against discrimination, empowerment in society and the representation of women with disabilities in leadership and politics in Africa.
The organization is fully registered under the Laws of the Republic of Liberia, and it is open to working with the governments, communities, civil society organization, Disabled Person Organizations (DPOs), NGOs, UN Agencies, the private sector, and other partners worldwide
to advance the rights of children and women with disabilities;
to provide sustainable development programs including life-skills to physically challenge and visually impaired females, 13-35, as well as
exploring avenues that would make children with disabilities live freely and comfortably.

Activities:
• Disabled Endowment Program: The Disabled Endowment Program was launched in 2018 at the Liberia School for the Blind, under the DEP, we advocate, seek and raise funds to provide mobility aids, visual aids, hearing aids and educational aids (including assistive devices) for distribution amongst women and children; to construct and rehabilitate schools, clinics, hand-pumps and latrines, etc. for the benefits of persons (women. children and girls with disabilities also, to provide life-skills to physically challenge and visually impaired young women.
• Disabled Exchange Forum: The Disabled Exchange Forum (DEF) was launched in 2019 at the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Under the DEF, people with disabilities, especially women and children with disabilities are given the opportunities to interact with disabled and nondisabled people across and out of Liberia; and also campaigning against violence against disabled women. In addition, under the DEF we confront the government of Liberia for disability-inclusion in all of government plans and policies and to also lobby and advocate for the inclusion and participation of women with disabilities in political engagement and accountability processes in Liberia.
• Peacebuilding and Political Engagement Program: As an institution, we have identified equal political and economic participation of women as critical to the continued efforts to consolidate peace in a nation; they usually display extreme interest in an effort to restore peace and how their voices can be heard in peace-building and reconstruction processes. But there are constraints hindering women’s representation and participation into political engagement and accountability processes, including: Limited decision-making power, limited supports, lack of funding, discrimination, etc. Thus, this program seeks to Strengthening women’s participation and representation in politics and peacebuilding processes.

Thomas Kenagea Brown is the Executive Director of Disabled Children and Female Empowerment Network (DCFE Network).

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.