Uganda: First Lady Tips Women On Business
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New Vision (Kampala)
17 July 2008
Posted to the web 18 July 2008
Frank Mugabi and Richard Adrama
Kampala
The First Lady, Janet Museveni, urged women to venture into small businesses or join women's groups to emancipate themselves economically.
She said this would help mothers, especially rural women, to earn money they could save to meet antenatal expenses: "Sometimes if you can't do something for yourself, no one is going to do it for you, and that is why I always urge women to stand on their own," Mrs. Museveni advised.
She was on Wednesday speaking at the closure of a two-day safe motherhood workshop for village health team members from West Nile region at Heritage Courts hotel in Arua town.
Citing her personal experience as a mother in exile in Tanzania, when she ran a marmalade business, the First Lady said it was time for women to start something at family level to ensure they and their babies don't die during childbirth.
According to reports, she said, a woman dies in birth every minute, yet the public doesn't seem bothered. She noted that people are more concerned when someone dies in a road accident.
The conference, organised by the office of the First Lady in collaboration with the Population Secretariat and the Ministry of Health, aimed at holding dialogue with stakeholders in child, family and community protection. District leaders, including resident district commissioners and local councillors, attended.
Mrs. Museveni, the Ruhama county MP, said times when women lived in fear of death at birth should have been history because the Government had strived to set up antenatal clinics with specialist personnel.
On the other hand, the First Lady challenged men to guarantee the welfare of their families, since they have the God-given responsibility to lead them. She expressed concern that there were fewer men at the conference than women.
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She stressed that the Government was working hard to ensure that all health centres around the country were well-equipped, with needed drugs, skilled medical personnel and ambulances.
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