Women under the Women Land Rights Movement, climbed this Soroti Rock to symbolize climbing Mt. Kirimanjaro, which indicate the challenge and struggle Women go through to own property, especially Land from their Husbands and inheritance from their Fathers.
They want Government and Parliament to consider Women’s issues as part of the National priorities, since they are the custodians of the country’s agricultural production. Women contribute up to over 70% of the country’s food production, which is a great contribution to the country’s economic development. Unfortunately, women seem not to be appreciated in the effort.
Women are not only mothers at home, but are really caretakers of a family as they do most of the donkey’s work to care and produce food in up to the table to ensure that a family feeds and survives. But these are always denied the right to own the land on which the cultivate food for all.
The Women in Teso now say are titre of the cultural norms that abuse their rights; they are tired of being used to cultivate wealth in a home, (especially in marriage), tired of being used to produce children and later dumped as useless.
The women with placards matched on the streets of Soroti Town to demonstrate their concerns and to call on the leaders to take up their issues nationally.
