The Italian Association Amici di Raoul Follereau (AIFI) and the Sampson Saywon Boah Institute for Community Based Rehabilitation will today launch a three-year community based rehabilitation project for people for disability in five counties. The program, which will be conducted under the theme, “From Exclusion To Equality, Promoting Community Based Rehabilitation,” is intended to empower people with disabilities in the country. A release issued on Monday by the organization said the program would be implemented in five of Liberia's fifteen counties. The release named counties that will benefit from the exercise as Montserrado, Bong, Margibi, Grand Bassa, and Nimba. 

According to the release signed by the Communication Officer of the organization, former Information Minister Dr. Laurence Bropleh will deliver the keynote address, while Mr. Richard Falla, Coordinator for Special Projects at the Ministry of State for Presidential Affairs will officialy launch the project on behalf of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf who is currently out of the country on an official visit.

The release named other dignitaries that will grace the occasion as Ambassador Attilio Pacifici, Head of the European Union Delegation to Liberia, the Ministers of Health, Education and Planning as well as the president of the National Union of Organizations of Disable and the Acting Executive Director of the National Commission on Disabilities Mr. Robert Williams, among others. The project, according to the release is co-funded by the European Union and the Italian Association Amici di Raoul Follereau, AIFO and will be implemented by the Sampson Saywon Boah Institute for Community Based Rehabilitation (SSBI).