{"id":12999,"date":"2019-03-07T17:05:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T17:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/?p=12999"},"modified":"2019-04-01T12:28:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T11:28:06","slug":"international-womens-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/international-womens-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Women &#8211; The Engine for Ending Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Women&#8217;s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.<\/p>\n<p>At Self Help Africa we recognise the crucial role that women play in agriculture. They are the engine of development to end poverty, and we support them to realise their hopes and dreams.<\/p>\n<p>On small farms across sub-Saharan Africa women not alone plough the land and plant the crops, they also weed, harvest, process and transport their goods to market &#8211; day after day and month after month. They do this while being mothers, carers and home-makers.<\/p>\n<p>Join us in celebrating the unsung heroes of development today. Women like <a href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/a-better-life-for-alice\/\">Alice<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/single-mum-becomes-businesswoman\/\">Jescah<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/janet\/\">Janet<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/widow-rebuilds-life\/\">Maimuna<\/a> &#8211; women who are an example, and an inspiration to us all.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, African women farmers constitute more close to 54% of all of the people that Self Help Africa is working with.<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>International Women&#8217;s Day (IWD) has occurred for well over a century, with the first\u200b \u200bIWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. Prior to this the\u200b Socialist Party of America, United Kingdom&#8217;s Suffragists and Suffragettes, and further groups campaigned for women&#8217;s equality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate women farmers, the engine of development across sub-Saharan Africa. <\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/international-womens-day-2\/\"> Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[706,685,637,1],"tags":[628,790,882],"class_list":["post-12999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies","category-gender","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-farmer","tag-international-womens-day","tag-woman"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v23.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Africa Women - The Engine for Ending Poverty - Self Help Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Celebrate international Women&#039;s Day with Self Help Africa.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/international-womens-day-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Africa Women - The Engine for Ending Poverty\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Celebrate international Women&#039;s Day with Self Help Africa.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/international-womens-day-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Self Help Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SelfHelpAfrica\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-03-07T17:05:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-04-01T11:28:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/03\/IntlWomensDay.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"467\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Self Help Africa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@comms\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@selfhelpafrica\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Self Help Africa\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/international-womens-day-2\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/international-womens-day-2\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Self Help Africa\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/#\/schema\/person\/ef27df5dc9e961797418d7a8bf315404\"},\"headline\":\"Africa Women &#8211; 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