LICORPA is a Liberian Registered non-governmental, non-political, and non-religious organization established in May 2009 by professional Liberians of multidisplinary backgrounds. LICORPA had accessed village households in Dewoein and Klay Districts in Bomi County with foundational training in business planning, marketing applications, and money management and micro-loans as a first strategy to str
enghten village households' economy. This intervention had enabled 350 persons (75% women, 10% men, and 15% youths) to establish small business ventures to overcome the entrenched level of hardship amongst beneficiaries. Initially, beneficiaries’ per capita income per day was 1.50USD for a household of six persons, but it had rose to 3.00USD per day. Also, women beneficiaries have become assertive in confronting the problem of gender inequity. Approximately 80% of Bomi County total population of 82,035 people depends on farming for livelihood support and income, and lives below the socioeconomic scale of Liberia. Baseline surveys show that 44% of male farmers and 72% of female farmers in village towns in Dewoein and Klay Districts in Bomi County cultivate less than 1 hectare of land per household for farming due to the lack of needed farming inputs and credit opportunity. As a result of this, villagers in these districts go short of food, especially during pre-harvest period. LICORPA had enabled these villagers to overcome the problem of food insecurity by accessing them with micro-loans to procure needed farming inputs and cultivate more hectares.
100 farmers (women and men alike) had benefited from this micro-loan program, and we wish to access 300 farmers in these districts in the county with credit in 2012
