Legislator empowers girl child, women

ZANU-PF Proportional Representation legislator for Beitbridge Cde Lisa Singo has started mobilising sanitary wear for female pupils in the district’s rural schools, as part of the ruling party’s Women’s League projects.

Speaking during the ongoing Zanu-PF Women’s League community outreach programme at Longobwe in Ward 3, the parliamentarian said so far she has donated pads to children in Ward 14 resettlement areas and Ward 1.

Cde Singo said she had already engaged other players to help with mobilising sanitary wear to complement ongoing programmes being rolled out countrywide by Government.

She said the unavailability of proper sanitary wear for children, especially in difficult situations, was a cause for concern.

“Together with other community leaders, we are mobilising resources to ensure that we empower the girl child and women in the rural areas who have no access to some of these facilities including sanitary wear,” said Cde Singo.

“We are also rolling out training programmes on entrepreneurship skills for women at ward level so that we improve on issues of self-sustenance in our communities.

“If you empower a woman, you have empowered the whole nation. Women carry the larger part of the social burden and hence the need to capacitate them.”

Cde Singo said it was critical for communities and their leaders to work together to foster a shared vision and successful implementation of pro-people programmes.

She said the local leaders of the Zanu-PF Women’s League were rolling out training for women on a number of income-generating projects. These projects, Cde Singo said, included baking, crop and livestock farming and candle, polish and soap making.

“Besides donating sanitary wear to young girls, we are also having training of trainers for women on a number of projects,” she said.

“We expect the knowledge to cascade from the highest to the lowest level in the party. It is also important that after these trainings we come up with contingent measures as leaders on how to sustain the various projects and enhancing market linkages for the people.”

Cde Singo said women should take advantage of the trainings so that they are not left out from participating in economic revival.