About Us
The Jewel Starfish Foundation (JSF) is a leading NGO in Liberia which is dedicated to ensuring core competencies in girls’ Education, Leadership Mentoring, SGBV issues, Social protection, and Inclusion for underprivileged girls. The Foundation was established in 2000 with an objective to Educate, Mentor, Inspire, Empower, Protect and Showcase a new generation of visionary women leaders.
Over the last decade (2010 – 2022), JSF has partnered with individuals and institutions determined to collaborate in order to help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through concerted efforts. Consequently, due to our firm commitment to fostering social change, JSF continues to sustain the great impact being made across the Nation, to inspire and empower the next generation through education and mentoring programs which remain one in a million and second to none in Liberia.
"I can assure you all that the anticipation of a more robust and positive impact on the generation through our programs remain certain, and will surely yield the necessary fruits we all hope to see futuristically."
~Ms. Stephene Audrey Kpoto Executive Director, JSF
Our Principles
The Jewel Starfish Foundation was founded in the year 2000 as a springboard of opportunities for female empowerment, through the provision of interventions that ensure that JSF beneficiaries obtain the proper skills and tools needed in the 21st century to learn, grow, succeed and inspire others; and to show by example, that if you educate females, you secure the future of the next generation.
Our Mission
To equip the next generation of female leaders with the skills and tools they need to become significant contributors to their communities and society, through the following programs:
• Scholarships for females from 7th grade to University
• Mentorship for grooming young Female leaders
• Entrepreneurship and Capacity Building
• Sexual and Gender Based Prevention Programs
• Social inclusion and Protection
• Micro credit programs