{"id":243603,"date":"2026-09-07T20:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-un-women-vsla-project-empowers-hundreds-of-women\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T20:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:32:24","slug":"liberia-un-women-vsla-project-empowers-hundreds-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-un-women-vsla-project-empowers-hundreds-of-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: UN Women VSLA Project Empowers Hundreds of Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Rep. Ellen Attoh-Wreh of Margibi District 3, chairwoman of the Women&#8217;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&#8217; money given to Liberian grassroots women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">She then said the amount was not enough, and expressed hope that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609070328.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Legislative Caucus of Liberia, thanked the people and governments of India, Brazil and South Africa for the US$167,000 behind the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":243604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,17665,6529,4712,1107,257,6504,254,55372,6524],"class_list":["post-243603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-empowers","tag-hundreds","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-project","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vsla","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}