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FemLINKPACIFIC and Connect Internet Services
today launched the 'Light Up a Woman's Life' campaign.
This is an initiative to help establish
savings accounts for women who lack access to financial resources.
FemLINK Pacific's 2009 Fiji Women, Peace and
Human Security Report, revealed there were a lot of women managing their
households on a single income.
FemLink's new campaign will give financial
access to 21 women from the rural area...
'Light Up a Woman's Life' adds to the
existing women's finance and economic empowerment campaigns..
This includes the work done by women's NGOs
across Fiji which recognises the need to not only highlight economic issues
women face but also invest in women.
The first 20 recipients will be announced on
October 13th.
She says, the reason behind setting up bank
accounts is because the Social Welfare Department now requires recipients to
have savings accounts.
Rolls adds that most single income
households tend to be led by women.
CONNECT has donated one thousand dollars to
help start the 'Light Up a Woman's Life Campaign.
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2 November 2009
Fiji - "Light up a Woman's Life" Campaign
"It's always about the ability to give back & empower our community
especially the voices that are seldom heard," said Connect Internet
Services Marketing Manager Dwain Qalovaki as he presented the confirmation
letters for the "Light Up a Woman's Life for Diwali Campaign" to recepients
Pushpa Wati Pratap and Lusi Nawaqadau of Nausori, and members of
femLINKPACIFIC's rural women's media network as part of the UNSCR1325
Anniversary event at femLINKPACIFIC on Friday October 30th.
The "Light Up a Woman's Life" Campaign emerged from the findings
included in femLINKPACIFIC's series of Women, Peace and Human Security (WPHS)
reports which the organisation has published this year, and also as a result
of meeting women in their homes, on the mat, and in consultations and through
the recordings undertaken since the organisation began its women's media
initiatives.
The reports highlight the lives of ordinary women leading extraordinary
lives, and we have become more and more mindful of the struggles of single
mothers in our society, the mothers who are the sole breadwinners in their
families.
"This has been a struggle of many generations of women in our own
country and for some of us, in our own lives and families," said Sharon
Bhagwan Rolls, who added that this campaign has added to the existing women's
finance and economic empowerment campaigns, and work of women's NGOs across
Fiji.
"It is not enough to simply highlight women's economic insecurities but
you also need to invest in a woman. Investing in gender budgets, for example,
is also about investing in a woman's future and her dreams and aspirations
for her children to get an education, to work with dignity, and to live in
peace and security."
For Connect Internet Services which has always participated in community
initiatives, this is such a great cause especially at this time of the year,
and it is humbling to be given this opportunity to empower single mothers
added Qalovaki.
With the donation of $1000 from Connect Internet Services and an additional
$100 from two anonymous donors, femLINKPACIFIC will be setting up bank
accounts for 22 single mums in Nausori, Nadi, Ba, Labasa and Savusavu.
Details of the 22 recipients will soon be available on femLINKPACIFIC's
website www.femlinkpacific.org.fj
Sharon Bhagwan Rolls
Coordinator - femLINKPACIFIC
+6799244871 (Mobile)
+6793310303 (Office DL)
http://www.femlinkpacific.org.fj:80/
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