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
Liberia: Rep. Larry Younquoi Calls Pres. Weah’s Annual Message “Unrealistic and Futuristic”
Liberia: Rep. Larry Younquoi Calls Pres. Weah’s Annual Message “Unrealistic and Futuristic”
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MONROVIA – Nimba County Representative Larry Younquoi has termed as “unrealistic and futuristic” the Fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) delivered by President George Manneh Weah to the Liberian people, through members of the 54
th National Legislature.
On Monday, January 25, President Weah delivered the SONA to the nation at the Capitol Building in Monrovia in keeping with Article 58 of the 1986 Liberian constitution.
Article 58 of the 1986 Liberian constitution states that: “The President shall, on the fourth working Monday in January of each year, present the administration’s legislative program for the ensuing session, and shall once a year report to the Legislature on the state of the Republic. In presenting the economic condition of the Republic the report s