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Article: While aid trickles in, Liberians get creative to make ends meet.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 7, 2007
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Byline: Tristan McConnell Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
MONROVIA, LIBERIA -- The walls are missing and the ceiling is snaked with cracks. When it rains, puddles form on the uneven concrete floor over which a twisted jumble of extension cords and power strips weave toward a small diesel generator chugging away in the corner.
It's a typical workplace in Monrovia, the overcrowded capital of this war-ravaged West African nation, and it's home to the grandly titled Association of Liberian Professional Secretaries and Clerks, where rows of customers learn to type on old computers.
"We are doing this work to help ourselves," explains ...