Reintegration and Resettlement

Reintegration and resettlement project for women and girls affected by war

Empowering women and girls in Liberia impacted by the civil wars is a central focus of ActionAid’s work in the country.

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To date, ActionAid’s “Reintegration and Resettlement Project for Women and Girls Affected by War,” has equipped 1,500 Liberians with the skills to build a brighter future for them and their families. The three-year program has been operating since 2007.

Ernest Gaie, ActionAid Liberia’s director, said the program is providing girls in primary schools with text books, uniforms and other items to improve their capacity to perform in school.

Though the educational program, Liberian women learn basic income generating skills such as soap making, sewing and agriculture. The skills are a “stepping stone” to broader empowerment, explained Gaie.

“We providing a lot of training … to build that confidence and esteem for them to actually engage leaders,” Gaie said. “Right now, we can comfortably say women are more willing to engage with local leaders and more confident vocalizing their needs with local leadership.”

For many women and girls, these trainings offer the first acknowledgment and realization of their voice and their own power to have an impact on the factors that keep them poor.

Through their involvement with ActionAid, a small network of women living or impacted by HIV and AIDS has formed, and is actively discussing with government leaders ways to reshape the nation’s HIV/AIDS policies.

“Often it is not easy to measure the impact of social change, especially changing minds and attitudes,” Gaie noted.

“You can easily say we built this school, we distributed this number of covered books but it takes a long time for people's minds to shift and then demonstrate an action toward fellow colleagues." Through these years of trainings ActionAid witnessed this gradual change with the women we work with. We must conitnue this work until the change continues on the force of its own power.

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