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Dec 12, 2013
Erica with the River Gee field team, county supervisor, and FNAs.
The American Soybean Association’s WISHH Africa Program Manager Erica Morrow, Project Assistant Leith McIndewar, and Program Administrator Eric DeMerit traveled to Liberia this week to monitor programming under the USAID funded HANDS program, led by Opportunities Industrialization Centers International (OICI).
Morrow traveled to Fishtown in River Gee County to observe the progress of construction on a second “Super Gari” processing facility in the region; WISHH currently has an established facility operating in adjoining Grand Gedeh County in the town of Zwedru.
Newly constructed Fishtown production facility.
Both processing centers will be producing a fortified blended food using imported U.S. soybean flour, micronutrients and locally grown cassava. The Fishtown facility is expected to be fully operational by February 2014. Morrow also met with local staff to discuss and manage program activities while traveling in the region.
WISHH staff were also joined by health and nutrition consultant Cade Fields-Gardner, who is working to solidify the nutrition component of the program and expand current systems to better integrate program components.
