The Dr. Martin Luther King Park Beautification Committee of historic St. Helena Island launched the new "St. Helena Community Market" in March of 2016. This market operates from 10 am to 1 pm on the final Saturday of each month.
Will you help Queen Quet provide livelihoods for young girls and women who live in the Gullah Islands? The emphasis is placed upon girls because girls stay to their community, build and raise families, own homes and land, work jobs as well as turn to craft, marketing and businesses to provide a quality future for their children.Without strong women the culture of a people will wither and die. Did you know women spend more hours a week working than men? Sometimes, some women complain, but wise women know God made women stronger to meet the task of continuing life.
The St. Helena Island Community Market is a place for women to instruct young women in making money. This money is used to circulate within the community, to pay taxes on land, support their husbands, pay for medicines, buy clothes and books for their children, even pay for higher education for their children. An urgent emphasis is needed on providing fresh, organic food and herbal medicine daily to our infants and children to produce a stronger and smarter generation. High unemployment among African American fathers has brought our communities circulation to a halt. This isn't the time for finger-pointing but taking a closer look at traditional wisdom, that says, "Women Can Lift Up The African Race". We have urgent need to get started today. This fast as lightning economic circulation vitally needed can only come from African American women. Its no small wonder Harriett Tubman was put on the $20 bill, the most spent bill, the future of economic status of Africans worldwide now depends upon the African woman.
We're are asking specifically for the assistance of women of the African diaspora, and continent as well, to give $15.00 U.S dollars per month to help grow the St. Helana Island Community Market to full time like the ones in Lagos and Porto Novo. We would experience tremendous growth if the St. Helena Island Community Market grew into a 6 day a week operation. A 6 day a week market will expand food growing operations, support greenhouses, build and maintain community shared gardens, provide entrepreneur opportunities for all sexes and ages, support education in traditions; like blacksmithing and engine mechanics for boys, clothing making and business ownership for girls, provide unique activities for special needs children, and assist the elders in their well earned retirement. How is the question and essential task we need to address to proceed.
Suggesting 3 measures to remedy the solution.
1. Mass donations from the public: All willful supporters can donate $15.00 U.S dollars per month to go into the general fund. This fund is personally overseen by Her Majesty Queen Quet and His Royal Majesty, Alase, Oba Adefunmi II. We only need to reach a 100 people and we got $1500.00 a month to pay bills such as electric, water and power for the market. However, the initial goal is to reach $100,000 people as stated in our original call in the Civil Corps proposal and Gardening Gifts For Mother program . This provides a hefty sum of $1,500,000,000 a month. Anyone can give from anywhere in the world.
2. Microfinancing beginning business owners who meet the qualification set forth by the women who rule the market. Women and teenage girls will be selected to advertise their business vision to receive loans from the women's merchant club. Men also can become supporters and members of the merchant club. Members of the women's merchant club will receive special deals, discounts, and will be mentioned in our annual supporters celebration. Supporters who would like to be become loaning partners can choose to support the woman and girl of their choice. The Gardening Gifts for Mothers programs allows Gullah women and girls to build assets so that they can stabilize their income, raise their standard of living, and reorient themselves and their families. Small loans given by members of the merchant club would bring big changes to impoverished women, who would use the money to begin or expand small businesses located at the St. Helena Island Market. Borrowers can use their loan money to grow and sell their produce, open small shops and beauty salons, and run dining operations.
3. Supporters who have been giving to the Gardening Gifts For Mothers program, via Amazon's Gardening section, we thank you for your continued support. To those unaware, the Gardening Gifts For Mother program, allows an unique opportunity for supporters to purchase gifts and send them to the farmers. Such as gardening tools, seeds, beans, rice, emergency kits, hand tools, irrigation systems, and a host of fine products that would start off well any garden. Choose from hundreds of gifts. Each gift is sent free as a apart of Amazon's Prime products. Yes, free shipping on all your gifts! So order now. Order again, and again. Thank you for your support. Here you can order:
Your gift goes to support the food growing operations behind the St. Helena Island Community Market. The goal is to make profitable the Gullah Gee Chee Nation land and farming operations, also AAfin Farms of Oyotunji African Kingdom Village. You will also be supporting the continuation of African American culture that still contains the original African blood of tradition. Your every dollar will inspire not only just local Gullah people but other African Americans that live nearby and far away! This bold act by the few of us can change the attitude of our people not to give up and give in. A bright example is needed to chase away the darkness. You are the light. Give now!
The rallying of women is the last and greatest call to unite all of African people worldwide as we prepare for 2063 set by the elders and leaders at the African Union. Agenda 2063 is a worldwide strategy to optimize Africa's resources for the benefit of all Africans.
The St. Helena Island Community Market is a place for women to instruct young women in making money. This money is used to circulate within the community, to pay taxes on land, support their husbands, pay for medicines, buy clothes and books for their children, even pay for higher education for their children. An urgent emphasis is needed on providing fresh, organic food and herbal medicine daily to our infants and children to produce a stronger and smarter generation. High unemployment among African American fathers has brought our communities circulation to a halt. This isn't the time for finger-pointing but taking a closer look at traditional wisdom, that says, "Women Can Lift Up The African Race". We have urgent need to get started today. This fast as lightning economic circulation vitally needed can only come from African American women. Its no small wonder Harriett Tubman was put on the $20 bill, the most spent bill, the future of economic status of Africans worldwide now depends upon the African woman.
We're are asking specifically for the assistance of women of the African diaspora, and continent as well, to give $15.00 U.S dollars per month to help grow the St. Helana Island Community Market to full time like the ones in Lagos and Porto Novo. We would experience tremendous growth if the St. Helena Island Community Market grew into a 6 day a week operation. A 6 day a week market will expand food growing operations, support greenhouses, build and maintain community shared gardens, provide entrepreneur opportunities for all sexes and ages, support education in traditions; like blacksmithing and engine mechanics for boys, clothing making and business ownership for girls, provide unique activities for special needs children, and assist the elders in their well earned retirement. How is the question and essential task we need to address to proceed.
Suggesting 3 measures to remedy the solution.
1. Mass donations from the public: All willful supporters can donate $15.00 U.S dollars per month to go into the general fund. This fund is personally overseen by Her Majesty Queen Quet and His Royal Majesty, Alase, Oba Adefunmi II. We only need to reach a 100 people and we got $1500.00 a month to pay bills such as electric, water and power for the market. However, the initial goal is to reach $100,000 people as stated in our original call in the Civil Corps proposal and Gardening Gifts For Mother program . This provides a hefty sum of $1,500,000,000 a month. Anyone can give from anywhere in the world.
2. Microfinancing beginning business owners who meet the qualification set forth by the women who rule the market. Women and teenage girls will be selected to advertise their business vision to receive loans from the women's merchant club. Men also can become supporters and members of the merchant club. Members of the women's merchant club will receive special deals, discounts, and will be mentioned in our annual supporters celebration. Supporters who would like to be become loaning partners can choose to support the woman and girl of their choice. The Gardening Gifts for Mothers programs allows Gullah women and girls to build assets so that they can stabilize their income, raise their standard of living, and reorient themselves and their families. Small loans given by members of the merchant club would bring big changes to impoverished women, who would use the money to begin or expand small businesses located at the St. Helena Island Market. Borrowers can use their loan money to grow and sell their produce, open small shops and beauty salons, and run dining operations.
3. Supporters who have been giving to the Gardening Gifts For Mothers program, via Amazon's Gardening section, we thank you for your continued support. To those unaware, the Gardening Gifts For Mother program, allows an unique opportunity for supporters to purchase gifts and send them to the farmers. Such as gardening tools, seeds, beans, rice, emergency kits, hand tools, irrigation systems, and a host of fine products that would start off well any garden. Choose from hundreds of gifts. Each gift is sent free as a apart of Amazon's Prime products. Yes, free shipping on all your gifts! So order now. Order again, and again. Thank you for your support. Here you can order:
Your gift goes to support the food growing operations behind the St. Helena Island Community Market. The goal is to make profitable the Gullah Gee Chee Nation land and farming operations, also AAfin Farms of Oyotunji African Kingdom Village. You will also be supporting the continuation of African American culture that still contains the original African blood of tradition. Your every dollar will inspire not only just local Gullah people but other African Americans that live nearby and far away! This bold act by the few of us can change the attitude of our people not to give up and give in. A bright example is needed to chase away the darkness. You are the light. Give now!
The rallying of women is the last and greatest call to unite all of African people worldwide as we prepare for 2063 set by the elders and leaders at the African Union. Agenda 2063 is a worldwide strategy to optimize Africa's resources for the benefit of all Africans.
THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THAT WOMEN ARE THE KEY TO AFRICA’S ECONOMIC FUTURE.
African Union Panel Calls for Greater Support for Women Farmers
African Union Panel Calls for Greater Support for Women Farmers
Currently one of the most important economic sectors in Africa is agriculture. It accounts for more than 32% of Africa’s GDP and it accounts for around 65% of Africa’s employment[1]. As the economy develops this preponderance is likely to decline as it has done in other countries as they develop but agriculture will still remain important for reducing famine and malnutrition.
The majority of the people working in the field are women. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, women in Africa are responsible for 70% of crop production, 50% of animal husbandry and 60% of marketing. Women undertake nearly 100% of food processing activities, in addition to child care and other responsibilities in households.[2]
Agriculture both illustrates how women are vital to African future prosperity and some of the problems along the road to prosperity. Women in Africa have few rights; they can seldom own land, although they are working it, they cannot take loans from banks in order to invest, and many of them lack a basic education. Women own less than 1% of the African continent’s landmass. Only 51% of females over the age of 15 in Africa are able to read and write, compared to 67% men. It is estimated that this inequality reduces Africa’s annual per capita growth by 0.8%. If this growth had taken place Africa’s economies would have doubled over the last 30 years.[3]
Women, therefore, might be considered to be key to Africa’s economic future. That is if the continent can overcome these inequalities to provide women with the necessary training, with rights and liberties to move freely in the market, to run their own businesses and make their own economic decisions. Women represent a pool of untapped labour. One of the biggest mistakes to be made in any economy is to misuse one’s factors of production. Time has come for Africa to start integrating women into the economy and to start maximizing their potential as future entrepreneurs.
[1] ‘Fact Sheet: The World Bank and Agriculture in Africa’, The World Bank, 2013, http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0,,contentMDK:21935583~pagePK:146736~piPK:146830~theSitePK:258644,00.html
[2] Zerbo, Sandra, Olivier Beni, and Valérie Traore, ‘Everyday Heroes’, Trust Africa, 2011, http://www.trustafrica.info/documents/Everyday_Heroes.pdf
[3] ‘Gender and Economic Empowerment of Women’, Africa Partnership Forum Support Unit, Briefing paper no.3, September 2007, http://www.africapartnershipforum.org/39921766.pdf
Women are the backbone of Africa’s agriculture
POINT
It sounds dramatic, but when more than 70% percent of the agricultural labor force of Africa is represented by women, and that sector is a third of GDP, one can say that women really are the backbone of Africa’s economy. But the sector does not reach its full potential. Women do most of the work but hold none of the profit; they cannot innovate and receive salaries up to 50% less than men. This is because they cannot own land[1], they cannot take loans, and therefore cannot invest to increase profits.[2]
The way to make women key to Africa’s future therefore is to provide them with rights to their land. This will provide women with an asset that can be used to obtain loans to increase productivity. The Food and Agriculture organisation argues “if women had the same access to productive resources as men, they could increase yields on their farms by 20–30 percent. This could raise total agricultural output in developing countries by 2.5–4 percent, which could in turn reduce the number of hungry people in the world by 12–17 percent.”[3]
The bottom line is that women work hard but their work is not recognized and potential not realized. What is true in agriculture is even truer in other sectors where women do not make up the majority of workers where the simple lack of female workers demonstrates wasted potential. The inefficient use of resources reduces the growth of the economy.
There is greater potential for African women
POINT
There is great potential in educating African women. Two out of three illiterate Africans are women. In 1996 the countries with the highest illiteracy rates in women are Burkina Faso with a staggering 91.1%, Sierra Leone with 88.7%, Guinea with 86.6% and Chad with 82.1% of women illiterate[1]. The situation is however improving. Women are starting to reach their educational potential: by 2011 the illiteracy rate among female youth (15-24) had dropped to 52% in Sierra Leone, 22% in Guinea and 42% in Chad.[2]
Women in Africa are becoming much better educated. This means they are much more likely to be able to reach their full potential in the economy. Education provides opportunities as educated women will be better able to work in the manufacturing or services sectors. They will also be much more capable of setting up and running their own businesses or organisations. As a more educated cohort of women enters the workforce they will have a much greater effect on the economy than women have had in the past.
Women are the backbone of Africa’s agriculture
POINT
It sounds dramatic, but when more than 70% percent of the agricultural labor force of Africa is represented by women, and that sector is a third of GDP, one can say that women really are the backbone of Africa’s economy. But the sector does not reach its full potential. Women do most of the work but hold none of the profit; they cannot innovate and receive salaries up to 50% less than men. This is because they cannot own land[1], they cannot take loans, and therefore cannot invest to increase profits.[2]
The way to make women key to Africa’s future therefore is to provide them with rights to their land. This will provide women with an asset that can be used to obtain loans to increase productivity. The Food and Agriculture organisation argues “if women had the same access to productive resources as men, they could increase yields on their farms by 20–30 percent. This could raise total agricultural output in developing countries by 2.5–4 percent, which could in turn reduce the number of hungry people in the world by 12–17 percent.”[3]
The bottom line is that women work hard but their work is not recognized and potential not realized. What is true in agriculture is even truer in other sectors where women do not make up the majority of workers where the simple lack of female workers demonstrates wasted potential. The inefficient use of resources reduces the growth of the economy.
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