EMPOWERING WOMEN TO REACH FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE
Entrepreneurship Employment Education
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The Habanera Ball
The return of the Foundation’s annual ball
This year, we are excited to plan the return of the Lise Watier Foundation’s annual ball, which will take place on October 13 at Windsor Station. We look forward to a memorable night together in a scenery that reflects the vibrant and animated streets of Havana.
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The registration period for the fall cohort is launched!
Are you looking for a fresh start and want to undertake a transformative professional project?
The Lise Watier Foundation offers the Let’s Start Up program to women who wish to carry out a professional project related to entrepreneurship, the pursuit of post-secondary studies or the search for a more fulfilling job.
Who we are
A helping hand for women
The mission of the Lise Watier Foundation is to help women living in a situation of economic, social or professionnal vulnerability restore confidence in their capacities and to help them to undertake to achieve financial independence.
The Foundation offers women resources, training, support and access to a network to enable them to develop their self-confidence and their full professional potential.
Our intervention pillars
OUR IMPACT
A program that changes lives
The issue: financial independence for women by one-third of working women earn less than $20,000 per year.
600
women supported towards financial independence
97 %
of participants have a better level of confidence in
their skills
100 %
acquired new knowledge and developed
their skills
45 %
are in a better
financial situation after just one year
92 %
say the program is still having a positive impact on their lives one year after completing it
