I’ve spent the last couple weeks traveling around Liberia visiting rubber plantations and mine sites, talking with people about how these businesses can better benefit local citizens. I like the technical discussions the best: the cost of replanting a plantation slaughter tapped during the war, the tonnage of various trucks to transport, the process for cleaning and packing rubber. This plant is run by a lovely Congolese woman who when I break into speaking french with her, invites me to her party. Sometimes I marvel at home blessed I am to drop into all of these various worlds.
