CIBITOKE, December 11th (ABP) – Five days before the end of the 16-day campaign against violence against women and girls, the Permanent Executive Secretary of the Murwi commune, Jean de Dieu Niyonzima, affirms that there has been a change in behaviour in several households in the Ngomba zone, following the lessons learned by the GLID organization in collaboration with the NGO Concern. That was the case on Wednesday December 4, in Rwesero, Ngoma zone, in the Murwi commune, during awareness-raising sessions organized by GLID against GBV.
For that official, those awareness-raising sessions are in addition to other GLID development activities benefiting 400 households in the Mugimbu, Mahande, Ngoma and Nyabubuye hills of the Ngoma zone.
The women benefiting from the “Terintambwe mw’isi itotahaye” project have developed through agriculture and have become more self-sufficient than before, which has reduced domestic violence, according to local sources.
The economic and financial advisor to the governor of Cibitoke province, Narcisse Ntihabose, called on the recalcitrant women to change their behaviour too, to ensure good cohabitation with their spouses and the sustainable development of their households. He hammered home the point that a household where the wife abandons her family every day to be beaten by her husband, where female children don’t go to school like the others, is condemned to poverty forever.
Gertrude Niyokindi, Director of the Provincial Department of Family and Social Development (DPDFS), called on the inhabitants of the Ngoma zone to perpetuate the achievements of the GLID organization, in order to continue to forge ahead in development, but also to eradicate violence against women and girls forever.
She also invited the women of the Murwi commune in general, and those of the Ngoma zone in particular, to take part every day in the various festivals dedicated to women’s rights and development.