Conference Call with Vaiba Flomo

Tuesday 11th, we all gathered in the conference room at 10 a.m (slightly later than monday, so we all got a bit of a lie in). We started by watching a film, called "Pray the devil back to hell". The film was made in 2008, and it was a documentary about a group of women who wanted peace in the second Liberian civil war. This group was called "Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace", organized by a woman named Leymah Roberta Gbowee. She managed to gather christian and muslim women of Monrovia to protest in a nonviolent way.

One of the women who was greatly involved in this group was Vaiba Flomo, a Liberian woman who was sick of all the pain and grief that the war had brought upon them.

After we had had lunch, we came back to the conference room to call Vaiba Flomo. We managed to get through to her, and even though it was slightly difficult to understand what she was saying (Thanks to the crackling noises of the phone) we all listened intently to what she had to say.

We asked her all sorts of questions, from personal questions about why she joined the movement, questions on the child soldiers, to her thoughts on the election of the first female president of an African nation; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. She was very happy to answer them, and we learnt a lot more about her from the "interview".

Olivia Shaw