Our featured Everyday Changemakers are volunteers who were approached by nearby villagers asking for help to fix their contaminated water well. This group voluntarily led a Safe Drinking Water project to retrofit the well, finding the expertise and funds needed and with an outside investment of only $1,600 completed the project ahead of schedule in December 2021. This group is part of the CII initiative in Buchanan, Liberia. Their community building spirit and passion towards positively developing the community’s poor infrastructure is the very reason they were selected as an “Everyday Changemaker”.
Hundreds in their community are now experiencing fresh, safe drinking water. CII members are now viewed and thought of as leaders in their community. A motley crew, a mix of participants from different professions Ma Hawa owning a provisions and dry goods shop, Otis Kuopar and David Tamba are concrete block makers and distributors, Edith Zeon selling beautiful colorful bowls, and Joecephus Boegbah, Abraham Kinjones, Teete Harris selling a variety of goods from their shops. All wonderfully driven, ambitious and rising above the ordinary.
Their community impact efforts will continue as they demonstrate the omni-present power of social change that resides in everyday people, everywhere. No outsiders or programs are needed to lead this change. Outsiders can instead support such efforts of mutuality. Many other Community Independence Initiative participants in Liberia are now also forming groups driving needed change, “peer driven change” models of success. See all projects from Liberia on the Mutuality Platform.
