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Rehabilitation of two clinics in Yeamai and Larkey-Ta
- The training of midwives is now under way.
Support to Yeamai community school (200 children)
- Support continues on the daily running of the school
Preventive health care services in Conneh camp (9,600 people).
- Community health education is ongoing through EQUIP.
Assessment Trauma counselling
- An assessment has been carried out in order to map the psycho social health activities of other agencies in Liberia , and thus develop and action plan to try.
Support to Conneh IDP school:
- With a very small support in drugs supply, the clinic at the BWI compound (large educational compound, where the office of ZOA Kakata is located) is rehabilitated and opened again.
Kakata town project
- Ongoing work, with good response.
School Rehabilitation
- In several locations schools need minor repairs. Schools that have a good functioning parent-teacher-association are assisted and re-opened.
(Dec
2003)
1. Administration building (1,000 IDPs)
2. Rehabilitation of C.H.Rennie hospital
- The most urgent
rehabilitation activities have now been completed
- A workshop has been organized with
the national malaria control programme
3.
Rehabilitation of two clinics in Yeamai and Larkey-Ta
- The
rehabilitation activities are now completed.
- All
the wells are now fully operational.
4.
Support to Yeamai community school (200 children)
- Support
is being given on the daily running of the school
5.
Preventive health care services in Conneh camp (9,600
people).
- Community
health education is ongoing and carried out by using
the 'Community Health Ambassadors' approach with EQUIP
(local partner)
6.
Assessment Trauma counselling
7.
Support to Conneh IDP school:
- Temporary
incentives for teachers continue to be provided
- On-going
support and monitoring of teaching activities
- Teacher
training for 20 teachers from Conneh Camp
- Psycho-social
activities started with CJPS for women and girls at
the Administration Building
- Vocational
skills training programme (carpenters and tailors).
The carpenters are currently making school benches.
The tailors are making 800 school uniforms for the
IDP schools.
- 220
adults are going to do a literacy course. 8. Kakata
town project
On 17th of November the urgent rehabilitation
of wells and construction of latrines begun. This will
provides 30 communal latrines, 5 new wells and 4 wells
will be repaired, including 4 training sessions and
more than 300 wells will be chlorinated.

Liberia has been marked by intermittent
civil war since Charles Taylor launched a rebellion against
the military regime of Samuel Doe in 1989. More than 200,000
people were killed during the ongoing conflict in Liberia
in the 1990s. In 1997, Taylor emerged the dominant power,
winning the 1997 presidential election. Two opposition
groups, controlling between 60 and 80 percent of the country,
launched attacks on Government of Liberia (GOL) forces
in attempts to oust Taylor from power, until his resignation
on August 11, 2003. The main opposition group, Liberians
United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD), which
began to fight former President Taylor in 1999, has grown
from a northern-based insurgent movement to a force that
now controls the majority of the country.
The second opposition group, the Movement
for Democracy in Liberia (MODEL), based in southern
Liberia, began incursions into Liberia from Ivory Coast
in April 2003, resulting in large-scale population displacement.
Years of conflict have had devastating consequences
for the humanitarian situation in Liberia.
The country is currently ranked
174 out of 175 by the United Nations (U.N.) World Human
Development Index, which measures health and living
conditions.
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