2023-12-13 11:06:06
Mouetse: for financial independence through entrepreneurship and the empowerment of rural women as a way out of various types of violence
December 13, 2023
We must educate women to get them out of the cycle of domestic violence. To do this, she must be made aware, motivated and supported so that she can create income-generating activities. Like many other associative organizations, Mariette Raissa Kombila and her association “Mouetse” are part of the aim of combating, not only domestic violence and other forms of social discrimination, but also and above all, of promoting economic empowerment of these volunteer women to escape the hellish situations they are going through.
The woman must take care of herself. It must be economically autonomous. Her empowerment is one of the solutions to deal with the violence she experiences within certain households. With this in mind, the promotion of income-generating activities is one of the remedies for it.
Moreover, the women of the Mouetse Association benefited from a batch of materials, at the end of the capacity building workshop in fish farming organized in Tchibanga, from November 30 to December 3, 2023. An encouraging act, which according to the beneficiaries, should serve as a school for other women across the country. “We learned a lot thanks to the encouragement of our sister Mariette Raissa Koumbila, Founding President of the Mouetse association. Thanks to her, we know what being autonomous is, its advantages because our empowerment gives us more responsibility and above all, our dignity” testifies Sabine Marcelle Matchiendy.
The Founding President of the Mouetse association wants to be pragmatic. Beyond raising awareness, raising awareness about domestic violence against women and especially their empowerment, Mariette Raissa Kombila takes actions that support what she says. In the capital of Nyon for example, this lady “dynamic“, according to certain testimonies, created a space for processing agricultural products in Tchibanga in order to promote the economic empowerment of women and also to allow those united in cooperatives to weave links of active solidarity for a social and solidarity economy. In the said space. In the said space, it made available machines for the processing of cassava, sugar cane… ” The objective here is to get women to come together in a cooperative, to forge development links for an active solidarity and social economy.” she will argue.
It should be noted that the capacity building workshop in fish farming, organized in Tchibanga, from November 30 to December 3, 2023, was led by UNESCO and the Salvador Sole Foundation. Also, it was technically supported by the Ministry in charge of Fisheries and the General Directorate of Social and Solidarity Economy.
The women beneficiaries expressed their gratitude to UNESCO and to the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Jonathan Ignoumba. He was represented by his Chief of Staff and the Director General of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Brice Koumba Mabert. They are grateful to them for the materialization of this noble activity, which for them, aims to promote the social and solidarity economy. ” Diboty di néni -thank you very much- because this learning workshop teaches us to move away from precariousness and gives us back our dignity. This is the beginning of our path to bliss” declares a proud and satisfied forty-year-old.
The empowerment of women is one of the fights led by the Mouetse Association. Men and women are united within this associative organization, for a noble fight, that of restoring dignity to human beings. Financial independence through entrepreneurship and the empowerment of rural women as a way outarticle
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