By Nancy Moore | Board Member, Village Improvement Project
Great news to report! Village Improvement Project has been awarded a $200,000 grant from the Africa Energy Challenge Fund. With this grant award, VIP will launch its social enterprise, Liberia Eco-Supply Ventures, and set up a modern factory in Liberia to assemble high-quality, efficient rocket stoves. This factory will hire and train Liberian workers thus providing good jobs in an area that needs employment opportunities.
VIP’s CEO, Dr. LeRoy Boikai will be traveling to Monrovia soon to oversee construction of the factory and the hiring of workers. We look forward to being able to start construction on the factory soon. The land has already been cleared. Dr. Boikai will be on site to ensure that everything is done to a high standard and that the grant money is being used in the most efficient way possible. This means that he will be living in Liberian for some time.
We will look forward to updates from him on our Facebook Page. If you are not already following us on Facebook, you can find us at Village Improvement Project, Inc.
As you know, clean cooking is an energy issue, a health issue, an environmental issue, and a women’s empowerment issue in Liberia. Addressing this challenge requires educating households, institutions, and businesses, creating demand, developing new distribution models, and changing practices ingrained over centuries. Your generous donations are going to make that happen.
Thank you for your continuing support.
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