Welcome! This blog documents my experience working in the Government of Liberia as the Special Advisor to the Minister of Gender and Development. I am supported by the Scott Family Fellows Program and generously sponsored by the Nike Foundation. Blog entries from 2007 follow my experience as a Nancy Germeshausen Klavans Cultural Bridge Fellow with the Ministry of Gender and Development during my studies at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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Sunday, August 5, 2007

Gbarbolu rice processing: a daily activity for Liberian women and girls (entry in progress)


Process used by women to remove the rice seeds from the stalks (threshing)... not exactly a combine.


Process used to pound the rice seed and break the husk off of the grain.


An incredibly challenging way to bounce the grain/husk mix attained by pounding in order to separate the rice grain from the husk. One wrong move and all your work is on the ground for the chickens!

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