What Brought Me Here

It occurred to me that not everyone knows what I’m doing in Monrovia. I’m working as a Program Officer for OICI International in our office in Monrovia, Liberia. I’ll be here for a year. We recently started the HANDS Food Security program with the help of a $35 million Title II grant from USAID. (As part of my responsibility is assisting in Branding and Marking I feel compelled to follow that with “From the American People”. Lol. Everything we have and o must have the USAID logo on it. The logo says "USAID" in big letters and "From the American People" underneath. (Title II is the classification of grants that includes emergency and private assistance for emergency and non-emergency food needs and food security goals.) For more information, see http://www.oici.org/

We will be carrying out direct distribution of food, food for work programs, training in agricultre, construction of roads and markets, provision of seeds and other materials so people can grow food for their own comsumption and to sell and instruction in nutrition and health. We also will have a school feeding program. We're working in two counties in the Southeast of Liberia, Grand Gedeh and River Gee.  I was going to post a picture and map, but the internet is SO SLOW and I don't have the patience to wait for pictures to load. Sorry, friends!