nigerian-women-economists

"In such a sexist world, educating women often creates a domino effect."

"When we arrived in the village, we found a very closed society that was suspicious of our intentions."

"A society that relegates women to the background and that did not conceive of them working outside the home."

"We need the granting of microcredits that promote local initiatives, as well as medicines."

"My commitment is to education, to spreading understanding, respect, closeness and forgiveness."

"what makes me happiest is helping others and seeing them happy."

"Women find it difficult to go to the hospital, so they use natural medicine."

"Now they see how they can help their children with the health, hygiene and first aid classes they receive."

"Cooking and health skills, so that they can better care for their childrenWho only eat once a day, so the children are very malnourished."

"Now families are cleaner and husbands are happier."

"I asked myself: 'What can we do?' Women have to get out of this situation."

"The Ogun region is one of the calmest areas of Nigeria, where war problems are far away; however, the place of women in this society is very inferior to that of men and even they did not think that there was another alternative."

"The problem is that women are forced to work in the fields alone to earn money and feed the family and, apart from these earnings, they also have to pay rent for the field to their husbands."

"Men do not work and they get paid to 'rent' their wives the lands on which they work to support the whole family."

"Iroto we work with rural women. Christian training is transmitted under the guidelines of Opus Dei, we talk to them about virtues, values and ethics in the family, in society and in government."

"We give them ethics classes to protect the lives of their children from the beginning to the end and thus educate them sexually."

"Improving education and moral disciplines so that the new generations have more alternatives for the future. To get them out of the poverty in which they are living and create a new mentality."