whewnow.org

When you educate a man, you educate an individual; but when you educate a woman, you educate a nation.
​~African Proverb

​​Women Healing & Empowering Women (WHEW)
​Is a grassroots initiative addressing domestic violence, homelessness, and re-entry for women of color in Harris County. 
The goal of WHEW is to provide workshops that connect the dots between Hip-Hop, homelessness, and domestic violence, prison culture, and reentry.

Who We Are

OUR MISSION
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Welcome to Women Healing Empowering Women (WHEW) is a grass-roots reentry organization founded in 2005, 501(c)(3) incorporated in 2007.

WHEW is on a mission to address interconnected challenges women face such as former incarceration, homelessness, and domestic violence, starting local going global.

WHEW's vision is to be an organization committed to empowering women globally through economic, educational, environmental, and cultural programs that work to end prison recidivism, homelessness, gender and ethnic biases, inter-generational poverty, the lack of access to adequate, and sufficient education.

"It's time for women to stop being politely angry" 

​ Lemah Gbowee

​JOIN THE BEAH (Be A) Ripple in the Pond Movement

​BRPM is inspired by Beah Richard's poem:A Black Woman Speaks