In Liberia, a country still recovering from civil war and the ebola crisis, most people remain in poverty, partly because the economy has been largely dependent on exporting raw materials, not finished products. But a creative American is changing that. His name is Chid Liberty, born in Liberia and raised in Wisconsin.\u00a0 He says he was happy in the US until he felt a call to go back to Liberia and start a sustainable, fair-trade company that pays local women competitive wages and gives them the dignity of a job. Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on this social entrepreneur\u2019s successes, in spite of Liberia\u2019s many problems. \u201cI realized,\u201d says Liberty, \u201cthat without going back to Liberia I would never really know who I am.\u201d Today Chid Liberty is in the fashion business, manufacturing school uniforms for the children of Liberia and a retail clothing line called Uniform, and giving Africa what it needs: decent jobs making products from African resources\u2014in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"