Liberian Society of Women Engineers - Sponsors Needed

SWE at UM is planning our third annual trip to Liberia this August to host a two-week leadership camp with the Liberian Society of Women Engineers (L-SWE). This year, SWE at UM will be sending 5 Graduate students and 5 Undergraduate students to plan and run the leadership camp for over 40 Liberian women in engineering. The goals of this leadership camp are two-fold (i) to empower the Liberian and US women engineers with the skills, support, and inspiration necessary to becoming successful and well-rounded engineering professionals; and (ii) to strengthen the community of female engineers in Liberia by building cross-cultural partnerships among female engineering students and professionals resulting in a global network of women engineers. 

Our organization’s ability to continue to operate is due in large part to the generous support and donations from corporations who believe in our mission and goal to make sustainable and lasting global impact with counterparts in Liberia. At this point, we need to raise the last $15,000 by July 31st and are hoping to establish corporate sponsorship on the scale of $1,000-$5,000 to help cover the costs listed below:

·  Travel expenses for UM team 

·  Room and board for 40 Liberian participants and UM team

·  Cost of camp materials 

The following listed items are the benefits your company would receive if they sponsors the 2017 L-SWE camp:

·  Stronger relationship with organizations and the local community

·  Company representatives invited to the networking dinner in Monrovia on August 29th

·  Company advertisement

Check out these articles for more information and photos from the L-SWE SUCCESS Camp: National SWE blog, EECS Department article, 2016 LSWE SUCCESS blog. 

If you have any further questions or would like to forward my contact information (Becca Cohn - cohnr@umich.edu) to your company, please feel free. 

P.S. We are always looking for professionals to participate in this camp. If you or someone at your work would like to be involved and potentially travel to Liberia for any and/or all of the duration of the camp, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.