The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday October 15th, 2022 – International Day of Rural Women
Day of Rural Women by Rene Wadlow
15 October is the United Nations-designated International Day of Rural Women. It is a day to highlight the critical role that women play in the food chain: in production, storage, marketing, and finally the preparation of food for the family.
As the Indian woman sociologist, Bina Agarwal, has written “The typical rural woman works twelve to fifteen hours a day – gathering firewood and water, growing food, collecting fodder and tending domestic animals, cooking, cleaning and caring for children and the sick or elderly. In severely deforested areas, it may take her four or five hours just to gather enough wood to cook the evening meal.”
Thus rural women’s roles as managers of their environment and providers for their family must be fully recognized, valued, and supported. Increasing women’s access to income, credit, land titles and other resources is essential to eradicating poverty and improving welfare.
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Midnight Waters #poem by Dr. Lawrence Nannery
“Wayfarer, directionless … an automatic tread …
The middle of the middle of an impossible journey …
No land. No markers. Nothing but wanderings of the mind. …”
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A fistful of cactus #38 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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