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Bringing Justice to Rural Liberia, via Motorcycle

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Community Legal Advisors perform a skit to demonstrate how mediation works
Thu, 06/28/2012

 When Grace* and her husband George started divorce proceedings in 2011 in remote Bor Town in Liberia’s rural Grand Bassa County, Grace was facing a raw deal.  George had claimed the small rubber farm that they had planted together during their marriage, and that had been their main source of income. Without a share of the farm, Grace’s financial future was bleak. read more »

First Post-War Teacher Trainees Graduate and Deploy to Grade Schools around Liberia

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Female LTTP graduate
Fri, 01/08/2010

In December 2006 when USAID’s Liberia Teacher Training Program (LTTP) evaluators assessed the status of teacher training in Liberia, they found three badly war-damaged Rural Teacher Training Institutes (RTTIs) in Kalata, Margibi County, Zozro, Lofa County and Webbo, River Gee County. None were fully operational, and their staffs had been decimated or were virtually non-existent. read more »

Workforce Programs Transform a Woman's Work and Life in Liberia

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Josephine Mendoza and members of the team she supervises.
Tue, 12/29/2009

Josephine Mendoza, jumped at the chance to learn auto mechanics on one of USAID’s first post-war apprenticeship programs in 2005. Josephine had been a refugee in neighboring Ivory Coast and had seen women working in construction and as mechanics. Only one other woman joined Josephine; the rest chose more traditional activities with less income-earning potential. read more »

Mobile Phones Improve Data Flow, Nutrition Interventions to Liberia's Vulnerable Populations

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A LAUNCH staff member captures beneficiary registration data on the EpiSurveyo
Thu, 09/06/2012

When the Liberia Agriculture Upgrading, Nutrition, and Child Health (LAUNCH) project used to register new beneficiaries to receive food rations, the process involved multiple paper forms that had to be filled out in the field, then transported to the project offices for transcription. read more »

USAID Projects Facilitate Public Private Partnership, Help Bring High Speed Internet to Liberia

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Liberians watch as the ACE cable linking Liberia to the world’s broadband intern
Fri, 12/02/2011

 As part of the Liberia Governance and Economic Management Assistance Program (GEMAP) from 2006-2010, and the ongoing Governance and Economic Management Support (GEMS) Program, USAID is providing critical support to the government of Liberia and private sector telecom operators to bring broadband internet to Liberia. read more »

10 Mega-Watt electricity generation plant handed over to Liberia Electricity Corporation

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President Johnson-Sirleaf, Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield, Mission Director Rader
Mon, 02/14/2011

On February 14th, the Liberia Electricity Corporation took over ownership of a USAID funded ten mega-watt power generation plant on Bushrod Island, Monrovia.

The new power plant is a huge boost to the LEC, and to Monrovia, effectively doubling the available power in the capital city. read more »

USAID, PMI team up with world's largest steel producer to fight malaria in Liberia

Workers take a break from the heat in their uniforms
Mon, 08/30/2010

      The town of Yekepa sits at the foot of Liberia’s Nimba mountain range, just a stone’s throw from the Guinean border. read more »

FORECAST sends MoHSW workers overseas to Master's degree programs

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From left to right: Dr. Jabbeh-Howe, Dr. Williams, Mr. Korvayan
Sun, 08/01/2010

In 2009 four Liberians put their steady careers at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW) on hold, said goodbye to family and friends, and left for foreign lands to take advantage of a study opportunity offered to them through USAID's FORECAST project. read more »

Sennie's Story: Overcoming Kwashiorkor

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Sennie before treatment - photo courtesy EQUIP Liberia
Wed, 06/23/2010

By Lisa Katelyn Hendricks and Justin Prud'homme read more »

RBHS program improves health care, drug supply in isolated River Gee County.

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A health care worker cleans a new delivery bed at Tuobo Clinic
Mon, 03/01/2010

Situated in the wet, untamed Liberian south east, and sharing a border with Ivory Coast, River Gee is Liberia’s second youngest county formed in 2000 after splitting from Gran Gedeh County. read more »