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Breaking Rural Liberia's Poverty Trap Through Innovation
Farmers in rural Liberia have limited access to facilities to process their crops or markets to trade them. Pothole-ridden roads pose particular challenges, especially when the rainy season makes them nearly or wholly impassable. Lack of electricity hinders mechanized processing of produce. A Liberian NGO, which partners with an American grantmaker on projects to provide off-grid energy and innovations for processing and marketing produce, aims to break the cycle of extreme poverty for rural communities.
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Liberia: Local Entrepreneurs Tackle Tradition to Fight Poverty, Empower Communities
allAfrica, 31 December 2020
Farmers in rural Liberia have limited access to facilities to process their crops or markets to trade them. Pothole-ridden roads pose particular challenges, resulting in… Read more »
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allAfrica, 31 December 2020
Educare Liberia is a non-governmental organization dedicated to building people and building communities. Among its initiatives are promoting women's involvement in… Read more »
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J Palm is a Liberian social enterprise founded in 2013 by Mahmud Johnson - who returned to help rebuild Liberia after he completed a university degree in the ... Read more »
