Amolatar | While distributing hand hoes to women, Judith Acan, chairperson of an informal women’s cooperative group in Amolatar, asked the recipients to go use the hoes properly.
At the same event, held on June 20 at the grinding mill premises in Amolatar, nine women were given “tokens of appreciation” for their efforts to return the grinding mill to women.
Beatrice Ogony, Mondesta Ongom, Akongo Grace, Grace Oyo, Semmy Ongony, Amera Molly, Hellen Ayo, Judith Acana, and Opio Andrew were among those who were recognised.
Beatrice Ongony expressed gratitude to Acan on behalf of those who were appreciated.
She encouraged other women to engage in commercial farming and improve their grinding mill.
“If women grow maize and grain, it can be packed and sold for a good price.”
She did, however, ask the current leadership to explain to women what the grinding mill has accomplished for them.
Ogony requested transparency if the cooperative would benefit all women.
Ketty Etap, a local leader, advised women to register for shares if they wish to own the mill.
Etap emphasised the importance of leaders explaining to women how the grinding mill operates and how it benefits them.
She also encouraged women to work hard and fill their stores so that they could make good money.
Molly Ogwok, chairperson of the Amolatar Women’s Council, thanked the women who worked so hard to reopen the mill and urged those who will one day hold positions of leadership to work for the people who elected them.
She urged women to turn out in large numbers when elections are called.
Kella Teddy Ayo, district commercial officer for Amolatar, promised to assist women in registering their group as a cooperative so that members could benefit.
She asked those who wanted to join the cooperative to contact the current leadership and purchase shares so that they could own the cooperative.
Assistant Resident District Commissioner of Amolatar, Tyan Sarah, thanked the government and NRM for providing women with a grinding mill.
She promised to work with women to ensure that the grinding mill benefits and develops them.
About the grinding mill.
The grinding mill was forcefully returned to women after the then-woman MP, Caroline Amali Okao, refused to hand it over to them, despite the fact that it was a government donation to women’s groups.
The government donated the grinding mill in 2015, when Amali was still the female MP.
In 2021, a group of women and their leaders wrote to the government, and Col. Edith Nakalema, the then-head of the State House Anti-Corruption Unit, who visited Amolatar and handed over the mill to the women.
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