MONROVIA, March 4 (LINA) - One hundred and twelve marketers, mainly women, have benefitted from cash transfer assistance from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

The marketers, former bush meat sellers, each received US$100, according to a UNDP release issued Tuesday in Monrovia.
They are from four markets in Monrovia that were designated to benefit from the cash transfer assistance. They are Rally Time, Red-light, Waterside and Duala markets.

The cash assistance is to help women in this category find alternative livelihoods in the wake of the ban placed on the sale of bush meat due to the Ebola outbreak.

According to health authorities, bush meat is one of the major sources for the rapid spread of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
Over 244 market women in this category have so far benefited from this cash transfer assistance. 

The Liberian Marketing Association conducted a survey of the markets to collect information on those marketers in this line of business.
LINA