AGBOGBLOSHIE LADIES ASSOCIATION CALLS FOR GOV'T SUPPORT







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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