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Liberian Disabled People's "Work Issues" Rekindled on Swedish-Italian Partnership


Liberian Disabled People’s “Work Issues” Rekindled on Swedish-Italian Partnership
Liberian Disabled People’s “Work Issues” Rekindled on Swedish-Italian Partnership
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Discussions at the Workshop; two of the disabled participants: Rose Dargbe (NCD) & Austin Baryo First-Honor graduate from Cuttington University College
MONROVIA – The work-related lamentations from members of Liberia’s disability community have been amplified, again, to attract attention of Liberian Government, the private employment sector, and entire Global Community. This has been going on over decades, especially in post-civil war period that is characterized with intensification of discrimination against persons living with disabilities in every public work place unlike prejudicial treatment against jobseekers/employees with no form of deformity.   ....

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Italian NGO, AIFO, Enters Liberian Disabled People's "Work Issues"


Italian NGO, AIFO, Enters Liberian Disabled People’s “Work Issues”
Italian NGO, AIFO, Enters Liberian Disabled People’s “Work Issues”
The Italian Organization, middle, on the Workshop’s banner at the venue in Monrovia
MONROVIA – In 1997, a non-governmental Human Rights-advocacy and capacity-building organization, named Association Friends of Raoul Follereau (AIFO), founded by a French Journalist in 1961, opened Office in Liberia. The Organization’s Liberia debut was through a community-based rehabilitation approach on leprosy, and later established a business setup program being run disabled people into oil palm and rice production in Montserrado, Bong, Nimba, and Grand Gedeh Counties.
“In Liberia, AIFO started with Liberians with leprosy,” declared Rebecca Stubberfield, Project Manager of Coordinated Action on Disability in Liberia (CAD-L), a Project funded by the Swedish  Embassy in Monrovia, at a two-day Workshop (16-17 February, 2021) on ....

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