Monrovia – Over 500 Youth at Risk, are part of a two-week peace-building training under the Socio-Economic Empowerment of Disadvantaged (SEED) project. The project is supported by UNDP Liberia with funding from UN Peacebuilding Support Office, through the Liberia Multi-Partner Trust Fund (LMPTF). Beneficiaries are being trained in conflict prevention, mediation and social cohesion and facilitated by Trainers from various partners. The SEED Project has also been able to place some of the beneficiaries in various different projects as a way of facilitating decent means of livelihood. Following a two-day training, community members-disadvantage youth included, commenced the cleaning of drainages and sensitization on the effects of sand mining, building in waterways and the misuse of drainages.

Source: Front Page Africa August 16, 2020 20:15 UTC