Solidarity Center Report: Women Empowering Women in the Niger Delta
Friday, May 23, 2014
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)A dynamic coalition of women from trade unions and community groups in the
Niger Delta is training and mobilizing women and young people to effectively
engage in the democratic political process, hold local lawmakers accountable
and achieve concrete goals in their communities. Victory Goodluck, a farmer
from the Ihuike community who has taken part in the coalition’s workshops,
says, “it is a good strategy to focus on women because women are instruments
of
change.” Read more at the Solidarity
Center.