Women in Yei River County of Central Equatoria State are calling on government and none governmental organizations to train them in order to have knowledge and skills in order to work and manage their families.
Speaking during ourselves program at Radio Easter on Friday, Charity Dudu expected NGOs to assess the situation of women and address their issues.
She called for training of women on business administration in order to manage their entrepreneurships because most of them who do business do not know how to calculate their profit or loses that makes them not to progress.
Dudu requested the government to implement the Revitalized Peace Agreement by availing funds to support women as stipulated in peace deal.
The woman regrets that most of the women are very vulnerable carrying huge responsibility because they lost their husbands during the crisis.
“We are calling on the NGOs to consider training the women. There are many organizations which are supposed to look into the issues of the women. Let them do assessment and see how to support the women. Women who are doing business are not trained on business manage especially how much you used for buying, how much your profit is and how much you eat and save. The government is also supposed to help them women as stipulated in the revitalized peace accord. So this is time for us to call for the support from the government and NGOs because most of us are very vulnerable as others lost their husbands during the war and are taking huge responsibility”, she points out charity.
Another woman, Rejoice Gaba, called on her fellow women to stand up on their own and raise their voices in order to be heard and considered.
She requested the women to organize and form associations in order to get quick support from the government and its partners.
Gaba appealed to the men and government to listen to the voices of the women and consider them to equally participate in all levels of the government.
“Let us stand up as women and see what happens. Let us form our own women associations in order to have power to raise our voices to the government. Women are capable of doing any work at any level of the government. Let us keep our selves busy every time engaging in work in order to carter for our family responsibilities”, Gaba advises.
Meanwhile Rose Umjima praised the women of Yei for being hard working, but regretted that they lack support to boost their efforts.
She advised her fellow women not to give up but continue struggling with the little they have and move forward.
Umjima said women are capable of doing what men can do if given opportunity and warns men from oppressing them.
“Women of Yei are hard working, but only that we are not supported. Before the crisis women could go to the rural areas to buy commodities with a fair price but since the onset of the crisis in 2016, they have no opportunity to go out and buy goods but instead concentrate in the markets within where goods are expensive where one buys but do not get enough profit,” she regretted.
The women advised their colleagues to avoid sending their small girls for early marriage to reduce some challenges facing them.
They also called on women to avoid over dependency from their husbands, but cooperate with them to develop their families.