Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of State for the Social Area, Carolina Cerqueira, highlighted, in Luanda, the role of women in guaranteeing stability, family cohesion and the development of communities.
Carolina Cerqueira, who was speaking during the commemoration of the African Women’s Day celebrated on July 31, said that women have been able to reinvent solutions to alleviate the difficulties of families in a pandemic period, focusing on actions to protect children and rural women.
He added that they are aware of their obligations to help empower and empower the poorest, most disadvantaged women, victims of armed conflict, violence, racism and discrimination.
According to the minister, improving its participation in the agricultural sector could contribute to economic growth, as long as it has access to training, new technologies and modern techniques for food production, processing and marketing.
In his view, it is necessary to guarantee access to credit and organization in agricultural cooperatives, rural schools and modern equipment.
“The right to land, support for associations and empowerment for integration into the productive economy circuit are practical forms of support for rural women that facilitate their access to agricultural inputs, seeds and fertilizers, in order to access instruments that allow the opening small workshops and starting family businesses”, he asserted.
The official also pointed to training in basic management of small businesses, training in savings, production and marketing of products and the modernization of agriculture and new land cultivation practices, including mechanization, the creation of economies of scale and storage, as well as such as the implementation of social protection policies (support networks for groups most vulnerable to food and nutrition insecurity, facilitating their access to food and basic services – water, sanitation, health and efficiency, in order to improve their way of life and promote social inclusion.
“Special attention should be given to children, pregnant women, the elderly, low-income families and people living with endemic diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS. Community canteens and kitchens, food baskets, access to clean water, free school meals and programs for food education is already underway in several African countries”, he said.
In Angola, according to Carolina Cerqueira, the Executive is developing a sustained program of social monetary transfers that have lifted hundreds of thousands of people and their households out of poverty, with women playing a leading role in this social relief programme.
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