(AGENPARL) - Roma, 10 Luglio 2023 - (AGENPARL) – lun 10 luglio 2023 Rural women in Haiti invest in themselves
Village savings and loan associations help Haitian women build their businesses and futures
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The way Yolande Saint Louis describes herself is someone who likes to help others, offering her services to whomever is in need of them. When other women ask how she manages, she says she loves her community of Mapou in southeast Haiti, and she doesn’t want to live elsewhere. That’s despite the fact that so many have abandoned the area to settle elsewhere in Haiti or abroad.
From these simple facts, it is not hard to see why the 42-year-old single mother was one of the 1 200 women to participate in an initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) — “Support to the Haitian government for the socio-economic empowerment of rural womenâ€