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Liberia: People
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As Liberia is incredibly poor, you will inevitably be asked for money or help of some kind. Usually the most persistant beggers are former combattants. Giving money to the elderly or the physically disabled will not go amiss. However, with most children and others, it's best to spend a little time with them, play a game, take digital photos (loved here) and then possibly give something as a gift to your friends. Liberians are proud people and their desperate need is no reason to treat them as beggers.
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Learn about Liberia's people, history, food, the effects of the civil war described in the words of a Liberian. Includes "A Day in the life of an indigenous-Liberian village" and "Experiences of Liberians who are Studying, Working, and Living Overseas." Has photographs. Maintained by Joseph Tellewoyan. http://pages.prodigy.net/jkess3/Liberia.htm
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No one knows the value of safe water and sanitation (WatSan) more then the people of Liberia. In 1990, Liberia's 127 years of peaceful democracy was shattered when a bloody, 16-year civil war erupted. Boys were recruited as child soldiers and many girls were forced to serve as sex slaves. Over 200,000 people were killed, most water supplies were destroyed and people started a desperate search for water which continues today. Few wells exist and most are contaminated, broken or overused. Many villagers are forced to draw water from stagnant swamps and water-borne diseases (dysentery, cholera, infectious hepatitis) are common.
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White agents of the ACS first governed Liberia. Under them, Black American repatriates attempted to recreate and maintain an American society, yet they ... married indigenous people. Many of their children, therefore, were Liberians of mixed parentage, but were identified as descendants of settlers, or Americo-Liberians. Like their settler parents, some would come to dominate Liberia's politics and economy.
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