http://gmpsiaprec.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/tonga-psa-women-launching-women.html The PSA Women in Tonga is launching
today their “Women & Informal Sector (WIS) Fund” to commemorate the International
Women’s Day. The WIS Fund aims to help women in Tonga who are affected
because they do not have a job and a regular income.
A
year ago the PSA Women pledged to help women in Tonga who are less fortunate
than them because they did not have the opportunity to get a job to support
themselves and their families. Over 390 female Members of the PSA pledged
$2 from their own fortnightly income to set up the WIS Fund for this
purpose. The WIS Fund was
collected since July 2011 and is now launched today a year later to commemorate
the International Day for Women in 2012. There
are many factors that contributed to why many women in Tonga do not have a
formal job and a regular income. This has not only affected them as
individuals but it has also affects their children and families. These
factors included:
Lack of funds for better education;
Lack of job opportunities in Tonga;
Domestic violence at home as a child and/or as
a wife, mother;
Dependence on Tonga’s weakened “extended
family sharing culture”; etc;
The PSA Women’s Committee will set
out Policy on how the WIS Fund would be used to achieve its purpose. It
is the PSA Women’s hope that they would be able to make a difference in the
lives of some women in Tonga who are less fortunate than them.
The
PSA Women wish all women & girls in Tonga, the Pacific and around the
world a happy day as they celebrate the International Women’s Day focusing on “Empowering
Rural Women – End Hunger and Poverty”
For
more information, please contact the Secretary General of PSA on email: psa_secretary@yahoo.co.nz
Thursday
08th March 2012.
