The Working Woman Contributes to Peace, Stability in Blue Nile
05 March, 2013 By: Imad Al-Dinn Mohamed al-Amin
KHARTOUM, Jan 7 (SUDANOW)—Hajjah Halimah Dongo, a vegetables saleswoman in Ginais Village, Er-Rosaires Locality says she is not embarrassed with her job and that sharing work with man is a social legacy in her region, indicating this practice has now become a must after the security and economic developments in the Blue Nile State.
The woman in the State work side-by-side with the man in such traditional practices as farming, grazing sheep and chopping wood and at present participates actively in the commercial business, Halimah added in a chat with SUDANOW.
Hajjah Halimah, an Ingassana tribeswoman, says she hails from Qaissan region, south of Ed-Damazin, from a village that was recently affected by the heightened Er-Rosaires Dam and now she has been working in Ginais market as a vegetable seller for more than 17 years. She said her daily earning ranges between 40 and 55 Sudanese pounds which helps meet the family demands
Dr. Samia al-Turabi, Dean of the Community Development Faculty of the Blue Nile University, indicated that the woman plays a distinguishing and leading role in pushing the process of development and stability forward. She assumes a major part in boosting peace in the Blue Nile State by preparing food to fighters and in contributing to voluntary repatriates, Dr. Turabi said, adding that there is now a plan for proving 4,000 women with micro-financing loans in coordination with the banks. The funds and efforts by the civil society organizations played a direct role in raising awareness and guidance of women in various spheres, said the Dean of the Community Development Faculty. Moreover, Dr. Turabi went on, saving and crediting societies are presently being registered in cooperation with the Ministry of Social Welfare to provide women with access to the banks through those societies. Some women breed sheep and cattle while others make ice-cream for sale, Dr. Turabi said. She added that there are women who manufacture charcoal and deal in crop trade and repay the loans in two years’ time. According to official statistics of the Ministry of Social Welfare, there are 12 registered societies which have received their financing loans and are engaged in different businesses. There is one woman who has managed to possess 11 refrigerators, starting with one refrigerator she purchased against a loan only a year ago. Dr. Turabi told SUDANOW that training courses were organized on the micro-financing services for women and on transaction with banks and on preparation of feasibility studies for 35 women in cooperation with the central Bank of Sudan and in partnership with the ministries of Social Welfare and Agriculture, the Savings Bank and other institutions. Sayyed Hussein Yassin Hamad, the Minister of Social Welfare and Humanitarian Affairs in the State, said there are specific channels through which assistance is offered to producing and poor families of the State. He said the Bank of Sudan has exceptionally offered SDG 500 million in the framework of what he called rotating funds. As a start we financed 500 families depended by women, giving each woman SDG 1000 to be repaid in 10 months, Hamad said The repaid money is given to another family and so on until all families are financed with sources on income to help them in their living, the Minister said. He added that his Ministry is also concerned with the women and children affairs by establishing a special administration that takes care of the rural women through setting up special micro-financing projects. He said the Ministry also pays attention to child issues and redress the shortcomings by enacting legislations and laws for child protection in coordination with the federal Ministry of Social Welfare. As regards the health security, the Ministry acted in two tracks, a local one supported by the State’s Zakat (Islamic tax) Chamber and another backed federally, Hamad said. More than 6,000 families under women’s dependence are now covered with health security besides 2,600 families receive a monthly SDG 100 grant each, the Minister said, adding that this number would rise to 7,500 families in the coming period. Sayyed Abdul Aziz Mohamed Abbaker, the Minister of Instruction and Education in the Blue Nile State, said there are tremendous efforts his Ministry is exerting for improving the school environment. The role being played by the woman, as a mother and educator of generations, is preparing children for school. Abbaker told SUDANOW that the efforts being made by his Ministry for the sake of women included the establishment of Rufaidah Vocational training Institute for Girls which was constructed on a scientific basis to meet the vocational training requirements for girls. This institute is of the secondary-school level and awards a vocational diploma certificate that qualifies for admission to universities. The two-academic-year institute began with a batch of 28 girl students in two sections- electricity and computer with other sections planned to be opened, he added. This institute is the first one of its kind in the State and has been established in the context of a plan by the Ministry for encouraging girl education, Abbaker said. He made reference to the role being assumed by the institute for training and enabling the associate to possess diverse vocational skills Sayyed Hussein Mohamed Osman, a women’s affairs activist in the State, said the social welfare consists of three components – the family, the community and the community segments- representing a common factor for research and studies. There is a special concern with reactivating the role of women in the State for transforming them into producers, through financing, in different fields, like manual jobs and housekeeping besides qualifying them academically to make of them mothers of high standards for bringing up generations capable of building the Sudan. E N D Mas 
Osman told SUDANOW that there is a study that cost SDG 132 million for the construction of 10 unplanned model villages in each locality in addition to a comprehensive social study to be conducted by the Ministry in coordination with the concerned authorities in the localities. This study is aimed at transforming those villages into closely connected urban centers in which women will play a positive role. The woman in the Blue Nil State works in different vocations on equal footing with the man, assisted by her physique, Osman said
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