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How Ervina Nina Clinton is empowering young people with Liberian Threads

ThomasMarch 6, 2022AfricaX Changemaker Interviews

Meet Ervina Nina Clinton who has started Liberian Threads Incorporated, a manufacturing company using local fabric to create products for the local market and engaging young people to help them discover and develop their talents and see that they can do something, that they can contribute and that they don’t have to be idle or dependent on others.…

How to start a sanitary pad industry from scratch in Liberia – with Naomi Tulay-Solanke | Interview

ThomasFebruary 17, 2020AfricaX Changemaker Interviews

Naomi Tulay-Solanke is the case in point, that you can achieve anything if you put your mind to it. Pregnant at the age of 14 in Liberia, she experienced stigmatisation, naming and blaming. Social expectations were, that she would drop out of school. Naomi however, decided to prove everybody wrong. “I always knew that I was going…