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Knowmore LIB: Building Resilience and Defeating Ebola through Civic Education

This post was originally published by OpenIDEO. By Brooks Marmon The “Knowmore LIB” project aims to sensitize all Liberians on the dangers of the Ebola virus, practices to avoid and contain the disease, and to increase the trust of Liberian citizens in their government. The campaign uses innovative tools to help Liberians engage with policymakers and public health officials. The campaign will deploy chalk billboards around major cities and automated question boxes that allow citizens to ask questions about the Ebola virus; an Ebola awareness mural campaign; short films on Ebola through the students of an accountability film school; comic [...]

2014-10-10T00:00:00+00:0010th October 2014|

Liberia’s Ministry of Sound

This article was originally published by Time. By Aryn Baker It seems like any typical Friday night in Monrovia. Out on the streets traffic snarls around the intersections, and taxis and buses are crammed with commuters on their way home after a long week. The ubiquitous sidewalk video bars are filing with patrons settling in to watch European club football on open air screens (Chelsea and Barcelona are favorites here), and the base is starting to thump at Code: 146, the Liberian capital's hottest live music club. Blake, the house DJ, is priming the audience with promises of a new [...]

2014-09-26T00:00:00+00:0026th September 2014|

Liberian Senate calls for more transparency over Ebola funds

This article was originally published by The Guardian. By Robtel Neajai Pailey and Blair Glencorse Liberia’s president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has told aid donors ‘we must shorten the road from commitment to cash’. Photograph: Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images Friday 26 September 2014 16.01 BSTLast modified on Thursday 2 February 2017 12.52 GMT Stately and unassuming, Liberia’s national Ebola taskforce coordinator James Dorbor Jallah announced at a press conference in late August that the government’s initial $5m (£3m) contribution to contain the disease had been spent. As he fumbled with the numbers in his expenditures report, the blogosphere exploded with queries about how all that [...]

2014-09-26T00:00:00+00:0026th September 2014|
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