Today,International Women's Day, belongs to the women
folk around the world and, in particular, to our
Gambian women who make up 50 percent of our
population, the majority of whom dwell in rural
Gambia, engaged in rural agriculture, represent 50
percent of our agricultural labour force and produce
about 40 percent of the total agricultural
production.They spend every day processing and
preparing food and supplying us with most of the basic
needs of the Gambian family:child rearing, health
care, clothing, shelter, water and fuel.All of these
activities keep women busy 16 hours a day.They manage
to perform all these back-breaking chores despite
their disadvantaged position in society; no access to
productive resources particularly agricultural inputs,
hardly any access to credit from the banking system,
lack information, lack access to education, do not own
land in many cases.The last thing that women need from
men folk is patronising words and policies.What they
want,and should get,is equal opportunity:access to
education,access to credit, access to land,recognition
of their contribution to GDP.I salute all women
everywhere.
sidi sanneh
--- "Jeng, Beran" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm not a sister but a brother and I like to thank
> you for your
> salutations to our sisters and to add to it by
> quoting the late
> great Nkrumah that " the level of development of any
> country
> can be measured by the political maturity of its
> women " .
> Sisters aluta continua .
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: saiks samateh
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000
> 9:46 AM
> To:
> [log in to unmask]
> Subject: GREETINGS TO ALL
> THE SISTERS
>
> MARCH 8th GREETINGS
> Dear Sisters
>
>
> I sent you all my salutations on the
> occasion of the day and
> wish you all the
> best in your day to day struggle
> against all forms of
> oppression.It is no
> hidden fact that you are the most
> marginalised section of our
> society and your
> daily struggle,as
> mothers,sisters,wives and women,in such a
> semi-feudal and
> oppressive society like ours,to get
> every day life as much
> normal as possible
> is without a single doubt a
> difficult task.I am of the opinion
> that it is only
> through you and the victory of your
> struggle that we can build a
> society free
> from all forms of oppression and
> economic exploitations,a
> society with a new
> form of human relationship.I am very
> confident that without your
> liberation
> this society will remain as backward
> as it is today.I am at the
> same time
> calling on the Gambian president Dr
> Alhagi Abdul Aziz Yaya Jemus
> Junkung
> Jammeh to use this occasion and
> apologise to all Gambian
> women,whom ,for the
> past years, he consciuosly subjected
> to the most backward
> political
> harassment.The struggle continues...
>
> For Freedom
>
> Saiks
>
>
>
>
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