Economic Empowerment
Liluye is committed to developing and collaborating on the most effective and beneficial, economic empowerment programs, moving survivors to be more educated and empowered overall so they’re able to thrive.
If you’d like to learn, follow, or attend one of our upcoming economic empowerment programs, or find out more about our past programs, you’ll find more information about them below. These programs may be hosted by Liluye or by one of our partners or collaborators.
~ PROGRAMS ~
The first pilot of Pathways to Financial Healing and Prosperity is officially starting January 13, 2026!
The program, or the Pathways to Financial Healing and Prosperity financial literacy program, is a power-packed online program that’s led, hosted, and facilitated by Liz Rabago (seasoned financial literacy trainer) and Monica Griffin (seasoned business strategist, survivor advocate, and behavioral health coach). The pilot will run over a six-week time period for female trafficking survivors in the U.S. between the ages of 25-55. Each weekly session is 90 minutes long, with optional office hours or mentorship check-ins between sessions.
The program is trauma-informed, recognizing survivor’s resilience and past achievements. It has practical, hands-on/real-world application and anchors financial growth in healing money trauma as well as rebuilding trust in oneself, and establishing generational wealth.
The program will cover the following:
• Healing your relationship with money
• Advanced financial literacy for survivors
• Career growth and earning potential
• Entrepreneurship and wealth building
• Financial protection and boundaries
• Long-term financial freedom plan
In addition, there will be mentorship opportunities for those participants/investors interested, guest speakers in business, financial advising (with trauma-informed training), and credit repair specialists as well as a journal, budget templates, credit report guides, and a survivor-friendly investment glossary.
In order to be considered for this first cohort, all participants/investors are asked to fill out a confidential, completed application form by: December 31, 2025. The application will take approximately 8 minutes to complete. Apply here.
To see the full Pathways program curriculum, click here.
The first pilot of Project EIFL X Liluye has officially ended.
The program, or the Project EIFL X Liluye Financial Literacy Program, is an impactful online program that’s led, hosted, and facilitated by Tarun Masapeta and his team (from Project EIFL). The pilot was held over a four-month time period and was for trafficking survivors in the U.S. and Canada in a cohort of two.
It was a safe, supportive community that educated and empowered survivors to help them gain financial independence and freedom to live their lives on their own terms. It featured up to seven different financial topics that was taught on separate, 45-minute Zoom workshops. After the completion of the entire program, the attendees were provided with a financial resource guidebook to help them afterwards.
The program covered the following:
• How to open a bank account (step by step).
• Introduction to personal financing.
• How to calculate taxes (where to set them aside, where to put them, how to reinvest them, how to do balance sheets, and what is taxable).
• Introduction to investing.
• Reinvesting in business and/or organizational financial literacy or as an individual.
• Personal financing (paying yourself and where to put your money).
• Insurance.
If you would like to partner, collaborate, or sponsor a future financial literacy training cohort, email us at info@liluye.org and we will get back to you to discuss this opportunity.