The Liberia Labour Congress (LLC) alone with others grouping is having a two days tripartite meeting and sectorial consultation result review on the social dialogue concerning decent work for persons living with disabilities.
Speaking during the start of the event on Tuesday June 25, 2024 at the headquarters of the LLC in Monrovia, the Secretary General Marcus Blamah said the two days sectorial event will focus on the review of documents and survey carried on in some countries to collect data about people living with disabilities.
He added that the LLC is focused on working with other partners to ensure that disabled people get a fair share of what they work for.
The Project Officer Rebecca Stubblefield of AIFO said that she wants participants to focus on Work Rights and cultural and institutional barriers to entry for persons living with disabilities.
She added that AIFO has been in Liberia for a long and has assisted several disability grouping such as the National Union of Disable, National Communication Disabilities among others.
The two-day event was fully supported by AIFO and brought together over twenty institutions such the Liberia Labour Congress, Federation of Road Transport Union, FAWUL among others.
AIFO, Liberia is a professional non-profit health and development organization that enables opportunities for persons affected by leprosy, persons with disabilities, women, children and members of poor and vulnerable groups, through focused healthcare, education and economic empowerment initiatives in Liberia with the aim of providing a better quality of life and creating large scale positive change.
In Liberia, AIFO has been working alongside the most marginalized since 1997, while the civil war unfolded, and focused its effort in reducing the burden of stigma and exclusion of persons with disabilities and ex-leprosy patients from health services and socio-economic local and national dynamics.
