Facilitate women's access to land - Widows plead with ministry
Vincent Amenuveve
Widows in the three regions of the north have called on the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources to establish land banks to facilitate women's access to land to enable widows and their children to benefit from government interventions such as the Planting For Food and Jobs programme.
They have equally stressed the need for managers of the Land Administration Project (LAP II) to carry out an intense public education on the provisions of the Land Bill and the need for the passage of a gender-sensitive bill that would address the needs of women, including widows.
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The call was contained in a six-point communiqué issued by the widows and signed by the National Director of the Widows and Orphans Movement (WOM), Madam Fati Abdulai.
The communiqué was issued to mark the celebration of this year’s International Widows Day in Bolgatanga on Friday, June 22, 2018.
The event was on the theme: "Inclusion of the ‘Invisible