{"id":23526,"date":"2022-09-22T09:35:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T09:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/liberia-liberian-women-urged-to-build-bridges"},"modified":"2022-09-22T09:43:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T09:43:59","slug":"liberia-liberian-women-urged-to-build-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/liberia-liberian-women-urged-to-build-bridges","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Liberian Women Urged to Build Bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>Former Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister, Madam Julia Duncan Cassell has urged her fellow Liberian women to build bridges as they move about daily in their communities, at their places of work and meetings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do we intend as Liberian women to build bridges?\u201d Madam Cassell asked her audience, who had gathered at the Paynesville City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the question that she had posted to her audience, who are mainly women, she said, \u201cThat should an easy thing for us to do. We build bridges all day: we solve problems all day as women of Liberia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hall was jammed pack with women who had come from different women\u2019s organizations within communities in Montserrado County and outside Monrovia, including all 15 political subdivisions of Liberia. Some had even come from the women\u2019s auxiliaries of different churches.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking further Madam Cassell, who is the Chairperson of the Board of Women\u2019s NGOs Secretariat of Liberia (WONGOSOL) said, \u201cThe women of Liberia have decided to prove themselves that they, too, can build bridges. They can fly planes, drive cars, they can move mountains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She reminded the women that as they meet on the next four days, they should remember that they were also part of the celebrations of the nation\u2019s bi-centennial events.<\/p>\n<p>Madam Duncan Cassell served as the Keynote Speaker and Chief Launcher of the four-day International Women\u2019s Conference 2022, which is being held on the theme: \u201cBuilding Bridges to Enhance Our Lives.\u201d The conference began on the 20th and is expected to climax on the 24th of September 2022. The conference is also being held under the auspice of Liberia Bi-Centennial Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking earlier, the Mayor of Paynesville City, Madam Pam Belcher-Taylor, said she was happy that the gathering was intended, among other things, to economically empower young Liberian women, who are ready for development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe society we live in today has a lot of ills in it. I want to thank the organizers who have decided to put their hands around our younger women because when you developed, you can excel economically,\u201d Mayor Belcher-Taylor added.<\/p>\n<p>Also speaking earlier, the National Director of the Liberia Baptist Women\u2019s Missionary Union, Moriah Grace Wisseh, told her colleagues that most of their male counterparts feel that they (women) should be in the back but that it was time for them to step to the place where it will be \u201cside by side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally, our male counterparts feel that we women belong to the back, belong in the kitchen. Have you ever stopped for a minute to think when a house is built, the kitchen is always placed at the back. It is because our male counterparts feel that women belong to the back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Madam Wisseh encouraged her colleagues, especially, those of them who are found of always asking for alms from men, to begin standing up for themselves by putting their hands to work so that they can be equally self-sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>Also, former Monrovia City Mayor Ophelia Hoff-Saytumah, Focus Person of the Mano River Women\u2019s Peace Network (MARWOPNET)-Liberia, spoke of how important the women of Liberia are. She narrated the invaluable role she and other Liberian women, including the late Mother Mary Brownell, played in bringing former President Charles Taylor and former Guinean President Lansana Cont\u00e9 together, which eventually led to peace coming to the Mano River Union Sub-region, including Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and La Cot\u00e9 d\u2019Ivoire.<\/p>\n<p>The four-day conference also has other speakers, including Mrs. Debbie Thomas Scott-Caranda, a 47-year veteran educator, Madam Gloria Maya Musu Scott, former Chief Justice, Republic of Liberia, Ms. Jacqueline \u201cJackie\u201d C. Kiadii, a business owner and technology educator, Pastor Jackquelyn Sangae Moore Russell, who is pursuing her PhD in Organization Leadership, Dr. Jewel B. Tarpeh-Kollie of Redemption Hospital, and Madam Elizabeth Geneva Meatta Armstrong, who has 30 plus years as an author, a professional accountant and a business development consultant.<\/p>\n<p>The four-day conference is being moderated by Madam Laurentine H. Bowman-Bass, Chair, Planning Committee, Liberia Bi-Centennial International Women\u2019s Conference<b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\">Liberia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Liberia. Former Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister, Madam Julia Duncan Cassell has urged her fellow Liberian women to build bridges as they move about daily in their communities, at their places of work and meetings. \u201cHow do we intend as Liberian women to build bridges?\u201d Madam Cassell asked her audience, who had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":23525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,16],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-23526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-liberia","tag-liberia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Liberia: Liberian Women Urged to Build Bridges - 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