Liberia

Blog Post:  Mama na come ›

Topics: Peaceful Change, Education, Economic Development, Citizen Involvement, Women's Empowerment

I think the women of Liberia are showing the way to this beautiful country's future.

Blog Post:  A fish cup of rice ›

Topics: Food/Nutrition, Hunger

It's not easy for Liberians to fill their bowls or their bellies these days. Like poor people the world over, they've been slammed by the steep increases in food prices of the past couple of years.

Blog Post:  What the heck is infrastructure, anyway?  ›

When Mercy Corps talks about rebuilding infrastructure in a country ravaged by war, the words can sound abstract.

Blog Post:  Every child should be in the picture ›

Topics: Children, Rural

In Parker Town, Gbarpolu County, in the north of Liberia where Mercy Corps has a number of agriculture programmes, I rounded up these children for a group portrait.

Blog Post:  Grow what you eat, eat what you grow ›

Topics: Food/Nutrition, Agriculture, Rural

Mercy Corps is working with Liberian farmers to coax their next meal – and all the meals of their future – out of the ground.

Blog Post:  These children play with nothing, anything, everything  ›

Topics: Children, Rural

What makes Liberian children smile? One of the few "toys" I saw was an old cassava grater reimagined as a tiny car.

Blog Post:  'How da body?' ›

Topics: Children, Rural

As a mother, it's hard to see poverty so deep as I'm seeing here in Liberia. I hug and tickle and make funny faces at every child I see.

Blog Post:  Cocoa, arm wrestling and opportunity ›

Topics: Rural, Livelihoods, Food/Nutrition, Economic Development, Agriculture, Women's Empowerment

Mercy Corps is helping Annie Garfree and other Liberian women farmers meet their country's own goals by becoming more successful farmers.

Blog Post:  Liberian people are "tryin' small" ›

I'm visiting our programmes in Liberia, my first trip to the field since I came to work at Mercy Corps two and a half years ago. On this first day in the capital, Monrovia, I'm getting oriented.

One Table:  Women take the lead ›

Topics: Women's Empowerment, Peaceful Change, Civil Society, Citizen Involvement

It’s not just the UN or farmers or the government improving food security in Liberia. Some of the most creative and effective efforts are by local women’s organisations.