​Empowering results during the pandemic because of the amazing support of our donors, RTE board members and the team in Costa Rica.

​Exciting news! Check out these graduates who just completed our virtual Empowerment programs In Costa Rica! Even during the pandemic, women are being empowered!​

Our sister organization Árbol de Esperanza was featured in their local newspaper in Costa Rica for their empowering work in the community. The NGO has been working around the clock helping to meet the needs of the community during this complex time! They have been working diligently to collect food donations and supplies to help support women, children and families.

​Dina Montefuscoli hosted the Gucci Ballerina Virtual Artist Showcase to help raise funds to support the mission of Ready to Empower. Ready to Empower was honored to have her amazing support.

​Sewing is one of the many job courses that RTE offers to help women find jobs and or start their own business. Women are learning to sew to help provide for themselves and their family.

Women empowering women!! Dina Montefuscoli held a virtual showcase to help support Ready to Empower vision! The event was a great success!

​Virtual Empowerment programs are officially being offered during the pandemic in Costa Rica. RTE and the team in Costa Rica have been working around the clock to make the Empower Programs virtual to continue offering support to those in need during the pandemic.

​Ready to Empower’s help during the pandemic. RTE’s sister organization ADE has been delivering donations of food and other supplies to the community of San Ramon, Costa Rica.

Education is empowerment! Women in Costa Rica are empowering themselves by learning sign language. Sign language is our newest addition to the elective classes being offered to women in the Empowerment Programs.

​Ready to Empower is excited to announce funding of the sexual and reproductive rights workshop classes being offered through ADE our sister organization in Costa Rica to help women empower themselves through education.

​Ready to Empower is excited about the new internships being offered at local bakeries in Costa Rica! Women are getting opportunities to learn hands-on skills to help them build their resume and improve their overall skills sets for future employment opportunities.​

​Ready to Empower is excited to announce the incorporation of manicure classes for participants in our Empowerment Program. Our sister organization ADE is facilitating classes to teach women to become nail techs!

​Ready to Empower’s empowering cooking and baking classes are helping women to learn trades to work towards their goals of becoming self-reliant!

​Ready to Empower was featured in Serendipity magazine November 2019 to help spread their mission of women empowerment and highlight the annual fundraiser event, “Cocktail for a Cause” at L’Escale Restaurant in Greenwich, CT.

​Ready to Empower partnered with KS Handmade, a woman owned business to help us continue our empowering work with women and their families. When you give $150 or more, you can receive a personalized 12″ x 24″ wood sign of your choosing to decorate your home or give as a gift to someone!

​Congrats to Karen Jara who received 4th place from the Universidad Latina De Costa Rica for her work as the Director of our partner organization Arbol de Esperanza! Karen’s passion and hard work over the years has helped thousands of women in Costa Rica.

​RTE celebrated a graduation ceremony with the amazing women who completed the Empowerment Programs in Costa Rica.

​Ready to Empower is excited to announce the incorporation of Self-defense classes for women participating in the Empowerment Programs.

In Costa Rica, our women are being trained to learn different trades to empower themselves! Women in the Empowerment Programs began offering hair styling classes to help women learn new skills to become self-reliant.

Some fun for the ladies in our partner organizations programs! ADE held a painting class for all of our participating women.