- Posted on: 07 December 2020
On the 15th of October which is usually celebrated as the International Day of Rural Women, the Executive Director of FFAC Bouba Aeisatu receives the Prize for Women’s Creativity in Rural life Women’s World Summit Foundation ( WWSF) based in Geneva and has awarded prizes to 462 influencial women who have impacted their communities in different ways to recognise and appreciate their efforts.
This year mrs Bouba Aeisatu was among the ten laureates selected for the 2020 session. She was selected as a result of the her struggle to empower indigenous women and girls to claim their rights and to end sexual and gender based violence in Cameroon.she recieved the Award from the Sub-Divisional Delegate for Minproff for Yaounde I Mrs Ndongmo Clairisse personal representing of the Minister of Women Empowerment and the Family.
To celebrate rural women FFAC Joined the world to celebrate the International Day of Rural Women.2020 in collaboration with Minprof Yaounde1 under the Theme » What Opportunities for Economic Empowerment of Women and Girls in the face of Covid- 19 » considering the fact that women play a crurcial role in agriculture, food security, nutrition and resource management and are being push behind, FFAC saw it as a means to bring togther 30 rural women share with them about the economic opportunities during this health crises and on the barrier measures to prevent covid-19. These 30 women including Indigenous women who benefited from income generating activities kits to start small businesses were trained on the fabrication of soap and liquid soap. They were drilled on how to fabricate soap with objective to help curb the spread of covid19 and also improve on their income generating activities. This will also help these women to become autonomous and increase their resilence during the pandemic to better prepare for the future and also reduce the risk of gender based violence. At the end of the workshop the women were awarded Attestation of participation. The Financial support was from the Prize Award offered by Women World Summit Fondation (WWSF).