By Awa K. Sanneh
As Gambian women joined the rest of the world to commemorate the International Women’s Day, the Minister of Gender Women and Children Affairs has advised women to embrace and complement each other to enable them achieve their goals and aspirations.
Honorable Fatou Kinteh who was addressing some hundreds of women on Monday during the celebration at Mile 7 said only unification and commitment will drive them to their aspiration’s goals.
“My advice to the women is to work hard, be committed to your work, honest and support each other. And if we support each other we will get to where we are going,” she told the women.
She advised them further to take good care of their children as education is the foundation and “once they are educated they would be independent.”
Minister Kinteh expressed that every day is women’s day “because women’s work is very important at all levels of our development and we must be awarding and rewarding women for their hard work and when we reward women, we are saying thanks for what they have done. So, rewarding and awarding women is a rights it’s not a gift.”
Bintou HR Fatty, director of children’s affairs, said: “International Women’s Day is a day to remember especially women living in the rural areas and as stakeholders they think about what’s strategy they can come up with to ensure that they provide them with labour, saving devices and also social amenities.”
She called on her fellow women not to let gender sororities that existing in society be a setback to them and not to raise shoulder with men, saying it’s not about competition but by showing competence and special skills as an individual.
