Empower Liberia Through Small Businesses

Background

The world watched as Liberian kids as young as 10 years old were exploited as armed combatants. Under threat of death, they committed terrible acts of violence against the Liberian society. Many turned to substance abuse to cope with their experiences. In partnership with IDEFOC, our program named Botanical Reintegration Village aims to provide groups of former child soldiers a three-month program to help them recover from their trauma and obtain the skills necessary for social reintegration.

Project update

The project management partner Initiative For The Development Of Former Child-Soldiers (IDEFOCS), have identified a business opportunity in Buchanan, Liberia, providing local laundry services. There is currently no major business of this kind in Buchanan and establishing this will hopefully result in a sustainable business that can generate profits and provide employment opportunities for both female and male workers. The form of employment is planned to be flexible with some daily workers, some weekly, as well as monthly employees. In the longer-term, this project will hopefully offer people the opportunity to earn an income, enable integration, while supporting overall positive sustainable impact on the society.

Thank you!

Once again, we want to thank you for your contributions to Action10.

Links:

• Human Rights & Science - Project Link
• Action10 - Project Link

Background

The world watched as Liberian kids as young as 10 years old were exploited as armed combatants. Under threat of death, they committed terrible acts of violence against the Liberian society. Many turned to substance abuse to cope with their experiences. In partnership with IDEFOC, our program named Botanical Reintegration Village aims to provide groups of former child soldiers a three-month program to help them recover from their trauma and obtain the skills necessary for social reintegration.

Project update

As in any organisation must we always be on out toes and work with the team spirit. We are right now reviewing this very topic in our programme in Liberia.

A local Stakeholder Committee is established in all Action10 programmes that shall implement the Milestones in actual practice, and its members are carefully selected in order to make sure they possess an adequate level of the following three characteristics:

i) intrinsic motivation

ii) overall qualifications/skills, and

iii) agency and authority to implement change.

The operations of the Stakeholder Committee are key, as it is the Stakeholder Committee that is in charge of driving change in actual practice. We call the operations of the stakeholder committee RISEagency. Measures are taken to ensure capacity and an enabling environment, including continuous reviews.

Thank you for your support!

Links:

• Human Rights & Science - Project Link
• Action10 - Project Link