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BY: Shallon S.Gonlor
NIMBA COUNTY — Scores of vulnerable women and girls in rural and urban communities of Nimba County have stressed the need for economic empowerment.
In an exclusive interview with journalists recently, the section of women and girls involved in sand mining called on government, civil society groups and humanitarians to give them economic empowerment in order to enable them open and manage their own businesses.
Attributing their call to numerous challenges face by them, the vulnerable women and girls named financial burden, husband’s abandonment, children’s out of school, and the lack of healthcare are causing them to live in extreme poverty, thus going to sand mining just to survive their families.
Economic empowerment as a long-term recovery measure brings significant changes in the lives of women and girls, improving their quality of life and that of their families, reducing gender-based violence, promoting sustainable development and strengthening economies.
Babygirl Soko, mother of six, said the idea is that enabling women’s economic stability can go a long way toward achieving equality efforts.
She maintained that their involvement as women to mine sand is surrounded by challenges, which they want to retire from the hard labor that has caused them severe pain and get engage with business to ensure their economic security and sustainability.
Babygirl Soko, mother-of-six, on behalf of struggling and abandoned women in pictures stressed that she including all other women abandoned by their husbands are living the worst form of life, subjected to hard labor work intended for men, like sand mining due to extreme hardship; having being left single.
The women through Babygirl Soko meanwhile called on the Liberian Government, civil society group and humanitarians to develop a detailed plan and rescue them from their economic hardship.
Babygirl Soko named the availability of loan program in order to improve their financial assets management and poverty reduction, adding that the micro-finance when available will ensure a robust and targeted economic sustainability plan for both single women.
