Young women of 16 years and above were taught how to apply for funding for their activities.

One of the crucial sectors of the national economy, agriculture, again received due attention over the week-end, as Douala’s rural women joined women the world over to celebrate their day on Friday, October 14.

Although the women continue to benefit from regular assistance from government through the Delegation of Women’s Empowerment and Promotion of the Family for the Littoral, MINPROFF, the day was yet special. The women were taught how to integrate themselves in the career world. Workshops organized on the occasion, taught them the importance of processing agricultural produce to generate income.

Emilienne Alice Elong, Littoral’s MINPROFF Delegate, said all this focused on enabling rural woman to embrace up-to-date life-changing agricultural practices, form groups, look for government and other financing opportunities, exploit knowledge built on their rights, as well as strive to improve their lives by processing what they produce into marketable products.

She explained that the event dubbed ‘Career Junction’, duels on the importance of the different activities related to rural women as the livewire of the economy. Activities to support and follow up rural women, she said, are held any other time apart from the day, through the National Employment Fund. “The Fund sponsors activities by girls and women and the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Promotion of the Family assists them regularly in their activities,” she explained.

About a hundred women were sensitized on how their activities can be financed, their rights, and other networks that can assist them.