advised women who have been given NGOs credit facilities to expand
their businesses and not to give such monies to their husbands as
gifts to express their love.The Damongo-Wura, (Chief) Lemu Jakpah said
instead of given out such monies as gifts to woo their husbands, they
should rather give them out as loans and compel their husbands to
payback.
He said government and NGOs interventions to reduce poverty,
especially among rural women over the years had not yielded the
desired impact because of the Ghanaian woman's love and desire to get
their husbands and their desire for material wants.Chief Jakpah gave
the advice at the official launch of a 56 million cedi micro-credit
project for rural women at Damongo in the West Gonja District on
Friday.The Damongo-Wura said women and their families would continue
to live in abject poverty, hunger and deprivation if they did not
change their attitude towards wining love from their husbands.
The Women Service Foundation (WSF), an NGO with sponsorship from SLO
Foundation in Holland is providing the assistance to improve the lives
of women and their household members. Sixty women would benefit from
the first phase of the project.Mr. Sulemana Abdul-Samed, Executive
Director of WSF said the NGO's overall aim was to have an
endemic-poverty free society through the provision of education, good
health, women empowerment and gender equality.He said the assistance
the NGO was providing for the women would help them to control the
development of their lives and their families for a healthy and
wealthy succession of generations in their communities.
"Reducing poverty conditions and increased wealth, well-being and
participation of women in good governance, peace building and conflict
transformation is our goal", he said.
