West Berbice YWCA group needs help to commercialize condiments, sweetmeats project

A display of agro products manufactured by the West Berbice YWCA

For the past three years the ladies of the West Coast Berbice Branch of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) have been crossing the Berbice River to attend the annual Berbice Expo.

Their journey, they say, is aimed at providing continual exposure for their products to a market which exceeds the size of that in their immediate community in Lichfield.

In 2008, they launched their micro enterprise, a cottage industry pursuit comprising the preservation of fruit,