CLEVELAND — Tasha Fairley and Carmonita Williams have been friends for years.

What You Need To Know

  • Tasha Fairley and Carmonita Williams are working to support young girls through the pandemic

  • The longtime friends started weekly zoom sessions for girls 11-17 to learn about several topics

  • The zoom sessions are held on Wednesday and Thursday evenings 

Both of them have a desire to help young girls and spent time brainstorming ideas of things they could do.

"It started off as a group of friends, myself and Carmonita, and we used to do community service. We did all kinds of different activities through different community events and my daughter at the time, she actually had to be about six years old and she used to come into our different meetings that we hosted monthly and she would come in and we started the meeting and she came in one day and was like 'mom wait, I'm amazing, too, don't start the meeting without me. And then from that day, we were like, OK, we have to do this for the little girls and that's how AmazinnMe was birthed," said Tasha Fairley, one of the co-founders of AmazinnMe.

AmazinnMe is now a recognized non-profit organization.

Fairley and Williams launched weekly zoom sessions to connect with young women in their community and help support them through the pandemic.

"You know, help them manage the challenges that they face. This is new to all of us and with them being in their adolescence, you know as teenagers, they don't really know how to cope and deal with change. So it's important for us to step up to the plate and help them recognize the potential that is within them so that they could reach their full potential in their everyday life," said Williams, co-founder of AmazinnMe.

Fairley and Williams pull from their backgrounds in education to create content for the girls.

Fairley is a school social worker and Williams a middle school teacher.

Some of the topics they work through with the girls are education, character development, and social and emotional learning.

"We talk about building strong teens. There have been different issues with kind of being stressed. Stressed to not have different outlets that they're used to. Let me see . . . Problem-solving. Different habits that they're now picking up due to just staying in the house or habits of not getting things done due to just being relaxed and not having a steady schedule," Fairley said.

Both Fairley and Williams hope their program will help girls find their power within and reach their full potential.

"It is our duty to help them realize what is on the inside of them and as our mission statement says, 'like a flower blossoms and blooms we are guiding our girls to become amazing women.' If you plant that seed we want to help them recognize how important it is overtime to see the flower blossom and the flower is them," Williams said.

Girls 11 to 17 can join the program.

The zoom sessions are held on Wednesday and Thursday evenings and are open to girls across the country.

Click here to visit the AmazinnMe Facebook page for more information.