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  • Title: Big things start in small ways.
    Author: Rawlings N.
    Journal: Integration; 1990 Dec; (26):8. PubMed ID: 12283889.
    Abstract:
    This statement from the President of the 31st December Women's Movement in Ghana was part of a larger text presented at the World NGO Conference in Tokyo, July 1-4, 1990. The women's movement in Ghana strives to achieve equal opportunity, social justice, and sustainable development against social discrimination for women. Planning and development have focused on women in socioeconomic development. Specific projects at the core of creating positive conditions for socioeconomic growth, raising the standard of living, and expanding the economy, involve cover food and cash-crop production, food processing, food preparation, and small scale industrial activities such as ceramics and crafts. Income supplementation helps parents to send children to school instead of work. Daycare centers operating near work places benefit mothers in terms of providing a vacation, adult literacy programs, and family counseling sessions. The Movement actively mobilizes women to have children vaccinated. Access to credit for women and utilization of technology enriches life for women, and reduces backbreaking labor. The Movement is building wells in rural areas to reduce parasitic infection and creating easy access to a water supply. 252 projects have been completed and 100 are in process. The Movement provides a development model for integrating the resources of government, NGO's, and members of the community. Self-confidence of women has assured the success of projects. The Sasakawa Foundation has contributed technology and Japanese volunteers to improve the cultivation of food crops and by example express humble, respectful, hard working, and happy models of big things staring in small ways.
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