Liberia: UN Women VSLA Project Empowers Hundreds of Women

Nearly 1,500 women organized into 49 savings and farming groups across eight counties began receiving grant money on Friday under a UN Women project.

Rep. Ellen Attoh-Wreh of Margibi District 3, chairwoman of the Women’s Legislative Caucus of Liberia, thanked the people and governments of India, Brazil and South Africa for the US$167,000 behind the project, describing it as taxpayers’ money given to Liberian grassroots women.

She then said the amount was not enough, and expressed hope that the…