How I started my my work

I am Mrs. Catherine Kollie- Gbidi I am an Entrepreneur and a Advocate who believes in making people lives better. I had a rough life after I lost my grandparents especially my grand mom. After her death I began to understand that life is not bread and butter but to work hard by God's grace to make it. I had my first son by a man who was not working by then,I had to wake up early in the morning to go and buy ice for my water, from there go to one of our biggest commercial market to buy other things like raw eggs cartoon and etc. I will stop on the high way to sell before coming home and boil the eggs to go sell. I did all of that because I needed to sustained I and my unborn baby. The baby tub was bought from the markets I sold and after he was borned, one year after I started attending a catering school but I dropped because I couldn't afford to buy materials for practical so I had to dropped. Afterwards one of friends help me and I started selling on the street the baby and I was in the sun months until he grew to 2 years. My 1st job was given to me by a church sister to managed her whole sale drinks shop. While I was there, i asked a fellow to help me with money to attend the University but he gave me $50.00 and it couldn't paid my school fees so God gave me wisdom to start selling my own food and retail drinks just for transport and to safe. I safe  to enter the university but my money couldn't reach. During the time I was selling, I was networking with some customers and one of my customers recommended me to a printing press from where I started my own printing business until 2 years ago the business went down.I started been an advocate during the time Action Aid Liberia went on our university campus for the 16 days of activism campaign that was when I voluntarily accepted to become the women forum president for the university. All my advocacy and awareness I learned it from Action Aid through the many trainings and workshops. I mentored and motivated a lot of young women on the campus and today some are advocates, I even took them to the U.S Embassy for different kinds of training amongst them was computer skills. During the 2014 war Action Aid trained us on how to use the preventive materials that a person can use to help prevent Ebola and report Ebola cases. We was going out in the field as volunteers to help national government kick Ebola out of Liberia. From there I trained some women and girls in my community for us to go out to carried on Ebola awareness this is how I met one of our late female Law maker Hon.Munah Pelham Youngblood and she developed interest in our group because of our hard work , she supported us and I also got in touch with one of the Ebola front fighter in the country Dr. Mosoka Fallah and I introduced him to the late Honorable. It was because of my connection to Dr. Fallah that is how District 8 & 9 got on the WHO Ebola workers payroll. After the Ebola we registered our organization in 2016 as WOMEN FOR POSITIVE ACTIONS since then we have started transforming lives positively. I have passion for what I am doing though we have not gotten grants, partnership or sponsorship but we are still committed by God's help.