The Beginning
Empowerment and Equity Through Education began to take shape in 2004 when Elizabeth, a native of Guyana, went there on holiday. Subsequent visits made her more aware of the lack of necessary learning and teaching resources by students and teachers at various levels of the education spectrum. On her return to New York, Elizabeth tried to do something about this, and through her contacts in a New York medical school, and in some high schools, she obtained gently used textbooks and other supplies and shipped them to Guyana.
Since then, Empowerment and Equity Through Education has not only shipped hundreds of books and supplies to Guyana, but has also sent school supplies to an elementary school in Lagos, Nigeria, and one in Walembele, Ghana.
Donations of food have been made to people in a poor neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Recognition of these efforts appeared in two Guyanese newspapers, the “ Stabroek News” -9/9/06, and the “Kaiteur News” - 9/19/06, and the Coney Island paper, the “Astella Action News” – October, 2007. In November 2007, the students at the University of Guyana Medical School presented Elizabeth Wilson-Anstey with a plaque to show their appreciation for the many medical textbooks and medical school supplies they received from Empowerment and Equity Through Education.
