PHOTO: Founder and CEO of I Lift Africa addressing news conference
By William Selmah, wselmah@gmail.com
A program aimed at helping Liberia feed itself has been launched in Monrovia.
The program named “I Lift Africa” is also expected to create thousands of jobs for the unemployed and maximum make use of people with technical skills, when it kicks off in 2022, according to its Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Jerry Topoo Boweh.
Liberia, he said, is the pilot phase of the program which is expected to be replicated across the continent once it succeeds here.
Boweh expressed optimism that the project can succeed in this country once it is wholly embraced and supported by all.
He said all that they are requiring of the Liberian Government is to give them 40,000 acres of land.
The project, according to Mr. Boweh, will also contribute to the sustenance of peace in Liberia. Liberia and the rest of the continent have been victims of failed promises; something he said he was fed off with.
He lamented that despite the great wealth the continent is endowed with, it remains a food insecure place.
All that is spoken of Africa everywhere, he noted, is negative including starvation and portrayal of images of children dying of it.