SWDA-Ghana has been monitoring women vegetable farmers in the Karaga District on its World Food Programme support for women’s growth in the communities.
Officer in charge of Gender and Communities, Miss Khadijah Abdul Samed expressed her profound joy after seeing how hardworking the women have been over the past year.
From the monitoring, it was found that the farms were very well kept where some of the communities including Nangunkpang and Zandua, apart from having their beds in the communal garden, the women also began backyard farming of ayoyo, bra and alefu.
“The communal support and protection of the communal gardens for the women was the icing on the cake for me. That’s a sustainability plan right there”, says Miss Khadijah.
Profoundly sharing a success story of a young woman in the community and how her activities are making impact, Miss Khadijah said “the stories some of the women shared with me were even more the beautiful.
The one that stuck with me was that of a young woman who shared how the project gave her a sense of purpose after not being able to finish her JHS education because of GHC15.00 in her early days.
Today, apart from having larger farms to manage, she is teaching women in her community how to grow vegetables right from land preparation to harvesting and she is making good money”.
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