About Us
P.E.A.R.L.S. is a mentoring program that offers fun, positive monthly meetings, community service projects and friendship-building activities for teenage girls.
P.E.A.R.L.S. Mission: is to enlighten, encourage, and empower young ladies by providing intellectual awareness and achievement, friendship and personal development, social responsibility, and respect for self and others while enhancing the quality of life and making a positive difference by living out the P.E.A.R.L.S. values: Purity, Empathy, Awareness, Respect, Leadership, and Scholarship.
The PEARLS are led by young professional women who serve as mentors, and in time Mentors develop leadership skills that they will carry with them throughout life.
P.E.A.R.L.S. helps young teenage girls build self-esteem, develop leadership skills and recognize the value of community service.
P.E.A.R.L.S. Mission: is to enlighten, encourage, and empower young ladies by providing intellectual awareness and achievement, friendship and personal development, social responsibility, and respect for self and others while enhancing the quality of life and making a positive difference by living out the P.E.A.R.L.S. values: Purity, Empathy, Awareness, Respect, Leadership, and Scholarship.
The PEARLS are led by young professional women who serve as mentors, and in time Mentors develop leadership skills that they will carry with them throughout life.
P.E.A.R.L.S. helps young teenage girls build self-esteem, develop leadership skills and recognize the value of community service.
How P.E.A.R.L.S. was born...
P.E.A.R.L.S. began in the Summer of 2014 in an effort to reach out to young ladies ages 13-18 of various backgrounds, customs and beliefs. Aisha Erma Lenora Saffold, the founder, has a passion to help young girls especially those who have been put down, let down, disappointed or neglected by peers and/or family. With the help of Pastor Kordell Sims, Sr. and First Lady Denondrea Sims, Aisha was able to realize her dream and they gave her her first chance at "Changing Lives, One PEARL at a Time." Nonetheless, she has undergone her season of trials, and learned to encourage herself and endure hardship. Much of this she learned from her upbringing and desires to share the lessons she was taught and the encouragement she felt. It is her hope that every young woman who comes through the program will be successful spiritually, mentally, and physically.
She was raised in a two parent home that she describes as “old-fashioned”; using “ma’am” and sir” to address elders, being a helper to one another, respecting others opinions, and striving to do what is pleasing to God. Being reared with strong religious and moral beliefs, she wants nothing less for young women under her wing and will do what is in her power to change their lives for the good.