with unemployment absurdly high in liberia, most people are forced into finding ways or finding things to sell in order to make a living. below are a few of the more creative and/or odd (from my privileged western perspective) things i have seen:
- guys selling rubber bands downtown monrovia (for the money changers who have huge wads of bills
- kids with multi-colored rolls of plastic bags on their heads for sale
- a street side merchant with two wheel barrows full of 6-9 inch snails from the bush
- the young men with an umbrella over their heads with a bundle of umbrellas at their feet for sale
- bananas, peanuts, monkey apples, baked goods, gum, and whatever else placed on the merchants head to sell to whomever is interested
- men who slow traffic down by working on the innumerable pot holes in hopes that passers-by in cars will tip them for their hard labor (a football team was out doing this on our local road recently to make money for uniforms)
- in busy market areas, men will help people find taxis (whether they want or need this help is irrelevant) for a fee
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Hey, Josh! I just read your entire Liberia blog from kick off to finish! Yowza! God grant you wisdom to understand all you're seeing and to put it into HIS context....and show you how this all fits into your story! Blessings, younger brother!
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