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Sirleaf Market Women's Fund Video (7 minutes) "My husband and I visited a Market in Monrovia with President Sirleaf. These markets and market women ARE the backbone, centers and hearths of life in Liberia. These are the hubs nutrifying and revitalizing people who have suffered beyond measure, the centers where life, education, literacy, child development, commerce and peace will be rebuilt and can flourish." Jennifer Buffett

SMWF News Fact Sheet, July 2011 Summer 2011 Newsletter Fall 2010 Newsletter

SMWF in the News "The Power of Women in West Africa," by Massa S.S. Crayton, Open Society Foundation Blog, November 16, 2011 "Echoes of Our Past, Visions of Our Future: In Tribute to Maathai, Sirleaf and Gbowee," by Jackie Copeland-Carson, Executive Director, African Women's Development Fund-USA, The Huffington Post, October 15, 2011 "Nobel peace prize could not have come at a better time for Liberia," by Robtel Neajai Pailey, The Guardian (UK), October 10, 2011 "Women Champions of Peace and Democracy Take Nobel Prize," by Isobel Coleman, Council on Foreign Relations, October 7, 2011 "Former Chilean President Urges Market Women to Learn How to Read and Write," by Alva Mulbah Wolokolie, The Daily Observer (Liberia), March 15, 2011 "Adult Literacy Bears Fruit," by Varney M. Kamara, The Analyst, November 17, 2010 "President Sirleaf Named Achiever," The Analyst, July 20, 2010 "Sirleaf Market Fund Constructs US$143,000 Market in Saclepea," The Informer, March 11, 2010 "Advancing Women and Girls in Liberia," by Jane Wales, Philanthropy Central, March 2, 2010

Reports Liberian Markets and Marketers Survey, August 2007 Prepared by Subah-Bellah Associates, Monrovia, Liberia Liberia Market Review, December 2006-February 2007