The first 48 hours in Monrovia have been crazed with meetings and errands. But tomorrow morning we head out to Sinoe rubber plantation in the east of the country to interview ex-combatants illegally tapping rubber. I use ‘illegal’ with some misgivinings. The plantation belongs to the family of a late President who presumably acquired the land through questionable means.
Nonetheless, the concession is going over to a Malaysian multinational (or so I’m informed) and the government is looking for ways to mitigate conflict. We’re gauging interest in a program to help these youth set up their own farms, and are pre-testing a baseline survey for the evaluation.
I would say blogging will be slow, but I may have just successfully set up e-mail and web access on my Liberian mobile. $1.50 per hour! Incredible. So expect short, poorly formatted, and badly spelled posts for the next few days. Big fingers + small keys = gibberish.
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Resettlement of Liberian ex-combatants, Chris? Brave! Keep safe.