Good shepherd Empowerment Program Embu, is a ministry of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd (also known as Good Shepherd Sisters) located in Embu Dioceses in Embu County, Kenya. Its main mission is to minster to women, girls and children whose condition in life cries out for healing and merciful love of Jesus the Good Shepherd with the aim of empowering them to realize they are born with the inherent and inalienable rights of all human beings which can enable them to reach their full potential as individuals and members of the society.

The Embu Empowerment program began in the year 2000 when the Good Shepherd Sisters were invited in the Dioceses of Embu to work in a shelter home for girls in pregnancy crisis and other related crisis affecting women and girls. A survey that was carried out then, revealed that most of the women and girls who sought help from the sisters came from very poor family backgrounds and from family structures that were oppressive and broken.

The survey also revealed that teenage girls who came from single parented families suffered most once they dropped out of school without skills and eventually ending up becoming pregnant, sent away from families even before they were 18 years. For such girls, to be able to earn a living while in slums or poor settings, they undertake occasional manual work, prostitution, selling illicit brews and drugs. The income earned from these activities is often not steady and normally too little to provide for their basic needs and a number of these girls/women end up in prison because of the activities they are involved in. It is this plight of poor women and young mothers especially those in pregnancy crisis that led to the beginning of the Embu Good Shepherd Empowerment Program registered as a Community Based Organization (CBO) in the year 2012. The aim of the program is to empower women and girls holistically.