As in Africa, Liberia’s greatest asset is its women and children. In December 1989, a brutal war started in Liberia. By 1997, approximately 200,000 of its estimated 4 million people had been killed of whom many were women and children.
Given the situation in Liberia, the lives of women and children were at serious risk. The women had severe economic hardships, were victims of sexual and gender-based violence, even some spent days in the forest and had low self-esteem. They and their children became homeless and lived in overcrowded and unsanitary shelters. The rate of Malnutrition, Cholera and HIV was alarming; for instance, children were out of school and became child soldiers living on streets. The shock and trauma of this war still linger on today and led to the birth of W.O.R.L.D. Inc.