AGBOGBLOSHIE LADIES ASSOCIATION CALLS FOR GOV'T SUPPORT
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| Agbogbloshie ladies selling at the market |
Comfort
Tsiboe, President of Agbogbloshie Ladies Association has advocated strong
financial support for Agbogbloshie market ladies calling on Government to come to
their aid and offer financial assistance to relieve their plight.
She equally called on
government, financial institutions and other stakeholders in the
country to galvanize support for market women to attain empowerment and to help
build their status financially.
In
an interview with www.spyghana news' correspondent Joseph Kobla Wemakor at the Official launch of the
4th National Dialogue on Women Economic Affairs and National Women
financial fair 2014, Comfort Tsiboe noted Agbogbloshie market ladies lack
working capital making it difficult for them to purchase farm produce from the
remotest villages to the market moreover; transportation cost is another cause
of worry to them which she believes money can solve.
“We need Government to
support us with money anyhow so that we can travel to the remotest villages far
away from Accra to go and bring more foodstuffs so that anyone who comes to the
market can get enough to buy and feed their families” she stressed
She cited one major
cause of higher money chasing fewer goods in the market which has become a
burden to Ghana’s economy as a result of inability of traders having more goods
to sell due to low supply of produce in the market arguing out, “if market
women don’t have the needed capital to purchase the produce in quantities to
sell in the market, there can be no reduction of prices on items.”
She observed most
farmers in the villages who produce food
crops also needs financial support to increase their yields adding that if the
market ladies are provided with financial support, it will go a long way to
affect farmers in a positive way since
farmers depend on them sometimes for financial support to increase yield
by producing more crops.
“Even our
ladies themselves sometimes used to travel all the way to the typical
villages just to assist and encourage farmers with an amount of let’s say GHc 100-200 to be able to produce
more food before we can get more to sell, places where government cannot
go….they are able to go” she said.
She is therefore
calling on Government, financial institutions as well philanthropists to come
to their aid and assist them financially to be able to bring more food to the market
in order to boost sales and feed the nation.
The Launch
The Women’s Financial Information and Resources Centre Ghana(WFIR
CENTRE GHANA) has launched the 4th
National Dialogue on Women Economic Affairs and National Women financial fair
2014 in Accra yesterday, September 27, to
open discussion on how to build status
of women financially as well as advocate
for their empowerment and equally call for partnership and support from financial institutions
with relevant products and services to partner with it by submitting its
product profiles to the Centre as well as sponsoring its financial literacy
activities scheduled to take place between 13-15 October at the National
Theatre in Accra.
The launching brought together various women groups
including the Agbogbloshie ladies Association, Enterprise Life Assurance
Company and other stakeholders to brainstorm on issues pertaining to women
empowerment and financial status building of traders.
“Lady Care” insurance (insurance made for women) was
introduced to the women groups by Enterprise Life Assurance Company Limited
(ELAC) to help them as a tool in shaping their businesses as well as enhance
security.
The WFIR CENTRE GHANA was established
in the year 2012 to serves as a one stop shop for financial information
specifically on women as the nation’s first and only financial data centre and
library for women endorsed by the Ministry of Finance and The World Bank and
open to women in the informal sector as well as researchers and policy making
bodies.
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