Norwegian lauds efforts of members of Tigray Women Association
Mekelle, May 1 (WIC) - A Norwegian expert lauded the efforts being made by the members of the Tigray Women Association to extricate themselves from poverty as well as ensuring their rights.
Information Exchange Program worker by the Norwegian government, Anita Land, told WIC today that the collaborative efforts being exerted by the members of the society to become self-reliant is promising.
Land who stayed with the association for ten months to gather data on the activities of the association and provide it major donors in her country hailed the work ethic of women in the state.
She also commended the members who ensured their land ownership rights, engaged in income-generating schemes and reportedly striving to abolish early marriage.
The direction being pursued by the association to alleviate problems of women by establishing women’s vocational training institutions as well as the endeavor being made to scale up women’s enrollment is encouraging, she underlined.
The association has reportedly been exerting efforts to change the livelihoods of some 300,000 members out of the half a million members, it was pointed out.
According to a sample study carried out by the association earlier, some 98 percent of the 14,900 women who received training have changed their livelihoods.
