Liberia, Oct. 30 -- Summary

By Joyclyn Wea and Nemenlah Cyrus Harmon with New Narratives

TARKUN TOWN, River Cess County - Before daylight, MissionMai Sam heads for her coconut and palm farm. The mother of eight and her husband who cuts palm for a living, have spent years growing and selling what she can, hoping to make the farm bigger and earn enough to keep all of their eight children in school.

So, when Sam, 48, learned that a Weah government program had set aside money to help vulnerable rural women like her, and that it was stolen by government officials, she was angry.

"They are wicked," Sam says. "They send their children to big big school, then we here are suffering."

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