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Our mission in Liberia:
- Mission established: December 2003
- Intervention zone: Maryland and Grand Kru Counties, the
south west and the Bong County, Zota, Panta, Kpaaï
and Jorquelleh Districts, the central north
- Intervention areas: water and sanitation, food security
- Team: 6 expatriate volunteers and 94 local staff
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HERE to learn more about the humanitarian situation in Liberia
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Our humanitarian action
Water and sanitation
Improving access to water and sanitation and supporting
public health activities
Our water and sanitation access program in southwest
Liberia (Maryland and Grand Kru Counties) is part of a global Water
and Sanitation project initiated by the DFID and set up by a consortium
of NGOs including OXFAM, Action Contre la Faim, Concern Universal,
Tearfund and SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL. The consortium's five year strategy is
aimed at supporting the Liberian government and the Ministry of
Health in their development objectives: access to drinking water
and sanitation and hygiene awareness.
The funding for SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL' program is provided by three financial
backers: DFID, ECHO and Irishaid.
Location: Maryland County (Harper district) and Grand Kru County,
south west Liberia
Number of aid recipients: 118 047 people
- Access to drinking water: needs assessment
and technical sampling of existing water sources, well drilling,
building 14 wells, and reconstruction of 18 wells equipped with
hand pumps, construction of sand filters, water quality monitoring,
supplying communities with support equipment for water quality
testing and well chlorination.
- Access to sanitation: construction and rehabilitation
of family and communal latrines, setting up efficient waste management
systems and building 7 incinerators, distribution of soap to families
and tools for latrine construction.
 Raising
hygiene awareness in cooperation with communities and local teams:
training health and hygiene volunteers, creating 7 hygiene committees
in schools, workshops to raise awareness about hygiene, latrine
usage and waste management, distribution of radios for the transmission
of hygiene awareness messages.- Strengthening local skills: workshops and
training to improve the capacity of local participants: technical
training in sanitation and hygiene, computer and software use,
accounting, logistics, and project management.
- Infrastructure maintenance: creation and training
of water management committees, training pump technicians, support
and coordination with other NGOs for pump maintenance.
- Preparation and response to cholera epidemics:
support for local cholera monitoring committees and risk reduction
plan for the community and region, assistance and support for
local sanitation teams, support for medicinal supplies to cholera
victims, disinfection of cholera-infected sites.
FOCUS: Global Handwashing Day (October
15, 2009)
The 15th of October is Global Hand Washing Day. SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL
took this opportunity to organize a big event in Harper, the
capital of Maryland County where SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL has
one of its offices.
 The
aim of this day was to sensitize the population particularly
the children on the importance and impact of hands washing
with the following key message: “Support Global
Hand Washing Day! Washing hands with soap and water keeps
you healthy!”
A various range of activities has been organized during the
whole day:
- A distribution of special T-Shirts for the day was organised
- A parade through the main streets of Harper City was
carried out with Harper Big Town Band.
- Dramatization of hands washing with dance, music and actions
was performed by the Maryland culture troop in several places
of Harper
- Demonstration of proper hand washing with distribution
of soap and followed by the distribution of biscuits to
children, to show that when your hands are clean you can
safely eat!
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participation in these activities was very important, among
the participants 10 schools sent each of them at least 10
students and 1 teacher to represent them. Read
an interview with one of these students- The activity was fully coordinated with the local authorities
and the most important ones participated to this event:
a Representative of the Superintendant, the Harper City
Corporation, the Maryland County Health Team, the Ministry
of Education.
- Moreover SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL’ program manager assistant
was interviewed by several radios and newspapers who then
spread the message of the importance of washing hands
This day was very unique and successful, and so far
hands washing remains the talk of the town!
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Food security
Liberia is a sea-oriented country and its inland regions are underdeveloped.
Fourteen years of civil war have devastated the few existing infrastructures
and nearly dismantled the societal structure. Agricultural production
after the war was at its lowest, able to fulfill only a small part
of the populations’ needs.
In January 2006, SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL initiated a program to support agricultural
revival in the Bong district.
Programme to strengthen food security
Location: Bong County, Zota, Panta, Kpaaï, Kokoya
and Jorquelleh Districts, central north Liberia.
Number of aid recipients: 21 000 people
- Infrastructure development and rehabilitation:
Construction of 75 drying areas (more than 4000 m²), distribution
of agricultural products in 45 remote rural villages, construction
and fitting of 5 rice mills (rice husking) in 5 central villages,
road and bridge rehabilitation to secure links between remote
and central villages, establishment of infrastructure management
committees in coordination with local communities, creation and
rehabilitation of 33 fish farming ponds.
 Support
and assistance for livestock farming: Support for producer
groups: 30 groups of 10 women for production and sale of vegetables
in urban areas, support for 45 groups of farmers in remote rural
areas to initiate animal production (pork breeding and continental
fish farming).
On-site technical assistance, training itineraries, sales support,
training farmers to pass on technical advice, training community
workers in basic veterinary care.- Rehabilitation: repairing roads and bridges
through a "Cash for Work" program.
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SUPPORT
OUR ACTION
With a donation of 36€, you enable
a drying area to be built for two families of five, which
will ensure long-term food security for them.
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OUR
PARTNERS
We thank our partners who support our programmes in Liberia:
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