WOMAN - THE BEAST OF BURDEN!

By Pauline C. Chesang

The woman wakes up early as 4.00a.m to prepare the children to go to school and the husband to go to the place of work. The women works hard all day to prepare family needs and at lunch hour the woman prepares food for the children returning home for lunch. The woman works throughout the day attending to the family chores. When everyone come home in the evening, the good wife will have prepared supper and she places food on the table and attends to the junior, to ensure he feeds well. after the meals she goes back to the kitchen to wash the utensils and she puts everything in order for making breakfast at 4.00am. the next day. She sleeps after midnight only to wake at 4.00a.m aworken by the alarm clock, to start the daily chores all over again. During the day her husband tell his friends that his wife just a house wife. She works for long hours and yet nobody appreciates the great role she plays in the home. In other countries women earn heafty allowances for staying at home. Recently a friend who works in middle east confided to me that his wife who is not employed is earning an equivalent of Kshs. 100,000.00 equivalent to USD. 1,250.00.Governments valuing their citizens should set aside some nominal fee to pay to house wives.

This segment of the populations are the beasts of burden. Women should just sit at home - but they should look for something to do. They can do some business to raise some money of their own. When they use their intelligence and hard work they will reap the results of their hard work. God never abundons his loved ones.

Cheer up girl! Cheer up. Stop worrying and work hard,

EMPOWERING WOMEN!

By Pauline Chesang Ngenoh.

Women all over the world goes through challenging moments. Wherever you go you find women with children to take care of. Some women have separated with their husbands for one reason or the other. In Kenya, like in other parts of Africa, most women go with children when they divorced or separated with the husbands. In other cases, the husband may be present but he cannot support the family. He leaves in the morning and come back late at night - drank. Woman struggle to survive. They go to work early and come home late carying food for the children. There is a big struggle - and women look to God to receive his mercies.

Women should not sit idle at home to wait for their husbands to bring home food and meet all the family needs. Both couples should work hard and in the end bring home the hard earned money and plan for their needs. In villages, women should form groups and pool their resources to be use in setting up viable projects. They should look for honest qualified leaders to handle and plan for their finances.They are to engage knowledgeable people to help them plan for setting up viable projects.Performance reports should be read to members on regular basis so as to boost trust and confidence.

The projects to be ran by the groups doesn't need to be sophisticated, but it should be developed over time until full growth is attained. The appointed Committee shall be responsible for conducting spot checks to ensure everything goes according the groups objectives. Women should come out and participate actively in improving their familiy's revenue generation. Gone are the days when wemen used to just sit at home to wait for the husband to bring everything home. When husband's of housewives, they are left devastated without any source of income. So women should never sit at home to just wash clothes, cook, sweep the house etc. They should go out and work so as to support the family.