Tuesday, March 08, 2011

International Women's Day: Supporting women of the Central African Republic


Khadija Ibrahim added: "After marriage, a woman's sole duty was to prepare food. Now women can become chiefs of villages because they can go to school. Anything is possible with an education. In the past men thought that women can’t manage important things. They thought our job is to prepare food for them, to stay at home, to fetch water, firewood and to cook. But during the Mercy Corps training men were taught that women have other valuable skills - that they can be civil servants, that they can do business and all the work that men do. We were slaves, but now we know our rights. We know that women can succeed"
Photograph: Jenny Vaughan/Mercy Corps
The Guardian

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