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| HRH Chief Kombe Richard Ndike delivering Keynote address |
The 22nd edition of the
International Rural Women’s Day celebrated under the theme “Rural Women: Access
to Financial Resources in the Food and Agricultural Sector” was used by many
stake holders in the sector to highlight the quasi absence of finances to the
rural woman involved in agricultural activities. In the Tiko Municipality in
Fako Division, every road led to Mondoni and the host His Royal Highness Chief Kombe
Richard Ndike equally declared that the access of finances to the rural woman
was yet to be a reality.
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| The Royal Couple of Mondoni hosted The 22nd Edition of the Rural Women's Day. |
He said this decision to empower the
rural woman taken by the United Nations came in the wake of the sufferings that
the average rural woman was noted to be undergoing. “It is a wonderful idea
that the Cameroonian Government realised the necessity to follow suite and went
on to acknowledge this Day as a worthy one to be celebrated. This shows that
the Government is taking note of the problems of the rural woman.”
Out of this occasion, he said he’d
been doing his best to assist the rural women because they were his
responsibility. In this line he said he had been listening to their demands and
giving them directives on how they could go close to Agricultural authorities
like the Divisional and Sub Divisional Delegates to ensure that help was brought
to them and workshops organised to make
them better understand what it takes.
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| D.O.Tiko Delivers speech at Mondoni Field while Hon. Efite looks on. |
The problems of the women he said
have been continuously channeled to hierarchy. “One of their greatest problems
is the very poor state of roads linking Mondoni and the main road running
between Douala and Tiko, the closest possible markets. You saw the poor state
of roads yourself when you were coming here today. The local authorities are
aware of all these problems and we are not comfortable with the problems being faced
by the rural populations. There is no pipe borne water and no health center
here. My duty is to transmit their worries to local authorities and that I have
done. So far we are not comfortable with the response of hierarchy.”
On the access of the rural woman to
finances he said Micro Finance Organisations that are settling in Mondoni were proposing
ways forward if the local populations could provide collaterals for them to
have access to finances. “But as at now, the accessibility of the rural woman
to finances is not yet a reality. I am working with the local population and I
want to be sure that something is working before I assure the local population”,
he said.
He pleaded with the Administration to
give the Rural Women financial and agricultural resources and inputs to enable
them improve in their food production and preservation.
While acknowledging the important
place held by the rural woman in Cameroon’s Agricultural Sector with some 2.2
million farms under their controle across the National triangle, the Divisional
Officer for Tiko Ngwashi Patrick Che the government was increasingly becoming
aware of the necessity to step in with finances and other infrastructural
inputs for the rural woman to forge ahead.
The occasion was further graced by
the presence of the Sub Divisional Delegate for Agriculture, Honourable Fritz
Etoke, Sub Delegate for Women’s Empowerment, traditional leaders from
neighbouring villages and women’s groups from different communities within the
Tiko Municipality.
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