Group to empower rural women through self-help

 WOMEN from Belmo and Yekigen villages, in the West Yangoru local level government, have formed the Yekigen Women’s Group.

The group paid their K250 registration fee to LLG manager Gideon Kaivi at the Warabung LLG office last week. It is the second group in West Yangoru LLG to be affiliated to the East Sepik Council of Women.

Women’s groups from Kumbuhun and Dunigi Kariru, in the KumunKoboibus Census Division, were the first to be affiliated to the council this year. 

The group comprises 25 members. Office bearers are president Michelle Caspar, vice-president Lucy Bashia, secretary Ruth Gwaino and treasurer Nancy Loko.

Caspar said after registering the group she was happy that women in the area were now under the umbrella of the East Sepik Council of Women.

“Women have been seen as housewives only to cook food for their husbands and children. With the new group we now can cook different kinds of food and do other things to sustain our families,” Caspar said.