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 ‘decent work