Chid Liberty

Innovation-Award-Winner-2011 Innovation-Award-Winner-2011

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• http://www.libertyandjustice.com/

Overview

Chid co-founded Liberty & Justice, Africa’s first Fair Trade Certified™ apparel manufacturer, after a short career in technology and finance. He was born in Liberia, West Africa, but left as an infant when his father became the nation’s ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, with residence in Bonn. His family was later exiled in the United States. In 2009, Chid returned to Africa after 28 years abroad. Inspired by the Nobel Peace Prize winning Liberian Women’s Peace Movement, Chid co-founded Africa’s first Fair Trade Certified apparel factory to provide economic opportunities for internally displaced women, who on balance, were vulnerable to rampant unemployment and economic exclusion. He is currently leading L&J’s rapid expansion in Liberia and throughout the region.