Poverty and hunger affect almost three fourths of rural women in Cameroon. Helping them to improve farm yield will significantly improve their living conditions and that of their families. This can best be done by introducing them to opportunities for investment in a profitable business that will enable them raise enough income to acquire inputs and equipment to increase agricultural production as well as invest in other business opportunities.
Little access to education, social inequalities and religious taboos tend to place women in an inferior position to men. This is because they depend entirely on men for their needs. This is the results of the large number of reported cases of domestic violence/abuse, high incidence of disease and increasing mortality rate amongst women and young girls
Economic empowerment of these women will help lift them out of poverty. It will enable them to afford to acquire inputs and equipment to improve farm yield which is the main source of income. Supporting them to start a business will enable them to better manage families as income generators, producers, and mothers as well as overcome the numerous domestic problems they encounter.
Women play an invaluable role in managing families as income generators, producers, and mothers. In most cases they do this single handedly with men contributing little or nothing at all. Empowering them economically means increasing income levels of families and consequently living standards, education of children and health insurance.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
