The Empowerment of Rural Women in Limpopo

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Introduction: Women in rural provinces tackle many adversities: from domestic violence to HIV ratings being increased due to the increase of sexual abuse. This project is there to help empower women to be independent, self-assured and conscious of their rights so, in the end, the women will be able to convey their knowledge and skills to the community. This project will educate the community on understanding HIV/AIDS, gender customs, sexuality, and domestic brutality. Background: Women empowerment motivates women with the courage to get rid of the shackles of certain cultural traditions and religious terms that have customarily held women dormant and incapable of seeing the power they hold. The communities in Limpopo are very culturally rooted and the people stand by their traditions. There has been a great debate on how to best promote the empowerment of women through rural projects so that women can benefit from projects available. Many have passionately disputed in defence of working involvement of community associates in women empowerment projects. Two-thirds of the world’s population is made up of women who are illiterate, and mainly live in rural communities. In most countries, fewer women than men know how to read and write because, in their culture, reading and writing wasn’t a required skill for taking care of the family, household, and the community. Education is a powerful tool that is needed to help empower rural women and to overcome the custom traditions set by the elders. Women regularly are in control of their house, therefore they watch over the family and also produce earnings. This can be a vast burden when they have restricted admittance to learning and employment and hardly any control with regards to thei... ... middle of paper ... ...e Rural Areas of Limpopo Province, South Africa”, Academic journal article; By Christabelle Moyo, Joseph Francis and Principal Ndlovu; Gender and Behaviour, Vol. 10, No. 1 – www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-2672461601/community-perceived-state-of-women-empowerment-in-some-rural-areas-of-limpopo-province-south-africa Womenwatch, Division for the Advancement of Women by the Government, National Report on the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, PART 3 Critical B: Obstacles encountered – www.un.org/womenwatch/confer/beijing/national/fiji.html Report (2003) on ‘Empowering Women, Developing Society: Female Education in the Middle East and North Africa; Population Reference Bureau; by Farzaneh Roudi-Fahimi amd Valentine M. Moghadam – www.prb.org/Publications/Reports/2003/EmpoweringWomenDevelopingSocietyFemaleEducationintheMiddleEastandNorthAfrica.aspx

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