By ALEX UANGBAOJE, Kaduna
An NGO, Hope for the Village Child Foundation (HVCF), on Friday,
trained women in Chikun Local Government Area from various fields of endeavour on how to become change agents of gender equality and climate change as part of activities to mark the International Women’s Day (IWD) with the theme “break the bias”.
According to the NGO, in breaking the bias against gender equality, the focus shouldn’t be on the men alone because most of the biases impeding gender equality are caused by women themselves.
HVCF, Programme of Officer on Women’s Right, Salama Ibrahim, explained that the training was organized to help women understand and identify areas where they are the ones constituting biases that is encouraging gender inequality in their homes, communities and societies at large.
“Hope for the Village Child, today we are joining the entire world to celebrate some women that have brought about change, in the gender struggle.
“We are having the meeting so that we can help women to understand and identify areas where they are the ones constituting these bias that is encouraging this gender inequalities in their homes, communities and societies at large.
“We are looking at the typical family settings, how a woman is the one sharing the roles and letting the boy understand that a particular job is for him and some others for the girls.”
“We are trying to help the women understand that they can be the best change agents to help us address this gender inequality we have been struggling with by starting from their homes, by giving both males and females equal opportunity and by not stereotyping the roles or responsibilities they are assigning to their children at home.” She said.
Salama, added that women can bring about the needed change in the in addressing the effect of climate change, saying “we are also trying to see how we can encourage women to be able to become change agents in this issue of climate change. You know the way climate change affect the female gender is different from the male.Â
“Women depend on natural resources, they are the ones that go out to look for source of fuel, like firewood, they are the ones that try to ensure everyone gets food in the house.
“The climate change that is reducing the amount of food available in the house is more heartfelt by this women, in fact the areas where sources of water are drying up women are the ones that have to travel a great distance to get this water.”
She expressed hope that the women will begin to do things differently as they now understood some simple ways they can adapt to changes and see how they can help to prevent this climate change that is encroaching into their communities, adding “this training has them to understand the importance of planting a tree as against just cutting a tree for firewood.”
Dorcas Jatau, one of the beneficiaries of the training who commended the NGO for organizing the training, noted that the training has made them realized that most challenges they face at home in bringing up children was actually caused by them.
“Thank God they brought us together today, we have been able to realised that most problems we have been looking for solution on was actually caused by us, so because of what we have learned today, we can now go back home and amend the we we do things.
“As a mother I now know that children have division of labour and I will inculcate that in my children, because the boys should take responsibility as a boy to prepare him for the future and the girls to, there are no more specific jobs for anyone.” She added.
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According to the NGO, in breaking the bias against gender equality, the focus shouldn’t be on the men alone because most of the biases impeding gender equality are caused by women themselves.
HVCF, Programme of Officer on Women’s Right, Salama Ibrahim, explained that the training was organized to help women understand and identify areas where they are the ones constituting biases that is encouraging gender inequality in their homes, communities and societies at large.
“Hope for the Village Child, today we are joining the entire world to celebrate some women that have brought about change, in the gender struggle.
“We are having the meeting so that we can help women to understand and identify areas where they are the ones constituting these bias that is encouraging this gender inequalities in their homes, communities and societies at large.
“We are looking at the typical family settings, how a woman is the one sharing the roles and letting the boy understand that a particular job is for him and some others for the girls.”
“We are trying to help the women understand that they can be the best change agents to help us address this gender inequality we have been struggling with by starting from their homes, by giving both males and females equal opportunity and by not stereotyping the roles or responsibilities they are assigning to their children at home.” She said.
Salama, added that women can bring about the needed change in the in addressing the effect of climate change, saying “we are also trying to see how we can encourage women to be able to become change agents in this issue of climate change. You know the way climate change affect the female gender is different from the male.Â
“Women depend on natural resources, they are the ones that go out to look for source of fuel, like firewood, they are the ones that try to ensure everyone gets food in the house.
“The climate change that is reducing the amount of food available in the house is more heartfelt by this women, in fact the areas where sources of water are drying up women are the ones that have to travel a great distance to get this water.”
She expressed hope that the women will begin to do things differently as they now understood some simple ways they can adapt to changes and see how they can help to prevent this climate change that is encroaching into their communities, adding “this training has them to understand the importance of planting a tree as against just cutting a tree for firewood.”
Dorcas Jatau, one of the beneficiaries of the training who commended the NGO for organizing the training, noted that the training has made them realized that most challenges they face at home in bringing up children was actually caused by them.
“Thank God they brought us together today, we have been able to realised that most problems we have been looking for solution on was actually caused by us, so because of what we have learned today, we can now go back home and amend the we we do things.
“As a mother I now know that children have division of labour and I will inculcate that in my children, because the boys should take responsibility as a boy to prepare him for the future and the girls to, there are no more specific jobs for anyone.” She added.
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