Lakes State Women Campaign For Their Rights

Women groups matching during the annual women rights awareness campaign held in Rumbek [©Gurtong]

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Women groups matching during the annual women rights awareness campaign held in Rumbek [©Gurtong]The title of this colourful campaign was “join women on bridge campaign, say NO to early marriages.”

WFWI works in war-zone countries to help women getting access to basic needs, education and other rights in the family.

The organization started working in South Sudan immediately after the signing the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Naivasha – Kenya in 2005 with its country office in Lakes State.

The campaign was held at Kubur William in Cueibet County over the weekend. This is the third campaign being carried out since it established its country office in Lakes State.

Various State authorities, ministries, commissions and other collaborative NGOs and UN agencies witnessed the event.

During the event, the Director General for Lakes State Ministry of Gender and Social Welfare Mrs. Margaret said that, “as women, we must be good examples of peace in our nation because we know very well what it takes to bear a child, and if we are peaceful, then our nation will be peaceful.”

She continued that, “all women must practice agriculture effectively in this coming season because this is a peaceful year where we all enjoy our yielding crops.”

Additionally, the Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner Mr. Philip Kot Job emphasized to the women on the importance of taking their daughters to school and to discourage early marriages as well as concentrating on nation building, “all the women including the old should join schools this year because we have adult education programmes for the old people.”

Mr. Kot summed up his speech by appreciating WFWI for the continuous support to the communities in Lakes State and South Sudan at large.

He asked the women to seize opportunities from the available chances in order to equally participate in the new nation’s leadership.

WFWI-South Sudan program has been innovatively working so closely with Lakes State authority to enhance women initiatives in leading their endeavours in the State and around the world.

The organisation has also trained women in basic business skills, agriculture skills and cooperatives empowerment in their lives through Income Generating Activities (IGA), Life Skills and Sponsorship Programs.

Women for Women International works with socially excluded women in eight countries where war and conflict have devastated lives and communities. “Each woman we serve has her own story–some of loved ones murdered, and others of physical and emotional trauma. Most have endured a struggle for survival” a statement in their website quotes.

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