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,