ABOUT US

Empowering The Poor, Inc (ETP) is a nonprofit, nongovernmental, and non partisan organization with offices in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire. 

ETP operates in Sub Saharan Africa, the only region in the developing world where poverty is increasing, while health and education are worsening. We target communities where health centers, running and clean water, schools, and latrines are almost non-existent.
We target communities where preventable diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS and malnutrition are widespread, while illiteracy and child mortality rate are high.

ETP is deeply passionate about breaking the vicious cycle of poverty by empowering the poorest communities in sub Saharan Africa, enabling them to lift themselves out of poverty with dignity. 

ETP designs and implements culturally based programs to enhance education, health, and micro credit while focusing on women and the youth.
Through these programs we cultivate the pathway for self reliance, dignity, sustainable economic growth, peace and the integration of Africa in the mainstream global economy.
ETP has a special capacity to provide culturally based programs while engaging the poor in each and every activity and program. We firmly believe that the poor should become a true participant rather being disenfranchised and marginalized.

We value the richness of the African Traditions and integrate them into our poverty alleviation paradigm. ETP goes to the poor, live among them, love them, start with what they know, and build on what they have. At the end of day, they are teaching each other  to read and write, to use and read a thermometer, to protect themselves from malaria, HIV/AIDS,  and to maximize their limited resources and become successful small entrepreneurs.