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June 2022: 27-year-old Patience’s hope is not quenched by the reality of hercurrent economic circumstances. Patience lives in Monrovia where one third ofLiberia’s 4.5 million…
June 2022: Sixty-year-old Kou is a widow caring for some of her grandchildren. With the death of her husband, Kou is left with no alternative but…
June 2022: Thirty-year-old Koo is a widow raising five children. Her husband’stragic death occurred through a fall from a palm tree. Palm trees grow at…
June 2022: A Liberian proverb says “When somebody is scratching your back,put your own hand there too.” Girl Power is humbled to “back scratch” womenwho…
June 2022: 58-year-old Yei grew up in generational poverty but she does notallow poverty to diminish her personal qualities of resourcefulness, confidence andhope. Yei is…
June 2022: Under the cloud of being disowned by her parents amid rumors about her health, 25-year-old Roseline is determined to provide for her livelihood…
JUNE 2022: The extended family tradition in Liberia provides families with a culturallyobligated and oftentimes, welcomed, resource to help out in times of trouble.Twenty-seven-year-old Helena…
JUNE 2022: Tongor is a sixty-year-old woman living with her husband and three of her six children (ages 17 to 14). Tongor and her husband…
JUNE 2022: Victoria’s husband abandoned her and their two children for anotherwoman. The pervasive tolerance of common law marriage puts women likeVictoria at risk. Liberian…