Our Partnership with Camp for Peace Liberia

Despite local and international efforts to provide equal space for women to explore economic opportunities, women in Liberia still face discrimination and marginalization in many ways.  Lack of skills training and restricted mobility prevents women from improving their livelihoods and accessing employment opportunities. Women are vulnerable to harm through restricted access to education, arranged marriages, female genital mutilation, domestic violence, and sexual exploitation. Preventing these practices is crucial to ensuring gender balance in Liberia.  Since 2015, Camp for Peace has provided vocational training and agribusiness entrepreneurship opportunities to rural young women in an effort to mitigate gender gaps.

One Day’s Wages partnered with Camp for Peace Liberia to create job opportunities for women who have graduated from Camp for Peace Liberia’s vocational school. The project purchased cassava processing equipment and essential materials to construct a processing facility and then established a women-owned cooperative, which operates and maintains the facility. Since completion, women in the cooperative can sustain themselves and their families through the sale of cassava-based products. This project provided decent work, a sustainable livelihood, and economic participation for rural women, therefore reducing poverty and social exclusion.