Liberia: Veteran Bureau Harvests 2.8 Hectors Rice Field in G/Bassa

21 February 2013

The National Bureau of Veteran Affairs (NBVA) under the Directorship of Dr. J. Edwin Lloyd, Sr., which in 2010 successfully implemented a Presidential mandate to vet out widows of ex-service men of the defunct Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL), has again harvested a 2.8 hectors of rice field aimed at making veterans around the country more self sustaining and useful to society again.

The NBVA Boss said he was very grateful to the Ministry of Agriculture and hope that the demonstrative exercise will be replicated in other parts of the country to afford other veterans to positively contribute .

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