Damongo, Jan.27, GNA-A traditional ruler in the Northern Region has 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.
