The struggling women and girls need economic empowerment



A mother is everything to everyone in especially to those she serves.She can stay all day long just to look for a shilling and when she doesn't succeed she will walk miles to fulfill her desires.Life is a struggle and women know it all they can tell it on the market places as they carry heavy burdens to display on the market and sell whatever they want to.Women are enterprises in almost all fields but some lack education and training.A woman can do more than five things in a day.Recently I went to the market and a woman was selling me green vegetable at the same time she was knitting and operating an mpesa(money transfer bank on phone)It means they can be trained on the internet while on the market and they can sell somethings online when they learn about the internet.Most women who also operate saloons have no time with the Internet for after I interviewed two women who were talented with making women's hair they told me we don't see the use of going to the internet and avoiding to make little money for our daily bread.There I had chance to introduce them to the internet and I have made it a habit of teaching them the internet where they are so that they can be digital and sell out the skills they have through the internet.It also proves they are eager to learn from where they are through mobile campaigns on how to be an internet user.If it took me slowly to learn the use of online it can also happen to the women and girls slowly as they pick up.This is my dream,,my thirst,my hope for women .Even the small girls who have a dream of being entrepreneurs they need the digital skills to be exposed to sell online as they grow up.Economic struggle is all that makes a girl and a woman not to excel for they are vulnerable to life.
To have income is to do something and that's why some women can spend the whole day on the market.I also met a woman who has two children on the market the youngest is one month and she had left home by 4.00a.m to go on the market to find her luck.By about 1.00p.m she was still on the market and she had not sold enough to find her transport to go home.She first gets the items on credit sells pays the debt and starts to self to find profit which will be part of her transport.Such a woman cannot find money to go to the internet nor computer training nor buy credit for her phone to access the email on her phone.It is evident that most women lack financial empowerment to access what they want to do which is a challenge and a contributor to many problems.some early marriages are because their was no money for a girls to further studies so she is forced into marriage.In some cultures a woman is meant to be married so when their is lack of fees to be paid in a school men have the chance first than women.Market places need a cyber cafe for a woman who stay all day on the market and the campaign to allow them know the importance of the internet as they buy and sell.

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