{"id":8149,"date":"2018-03-09T06:29:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T06:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=8149"},"modified":"2018-03-09T14:29:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T14:29:21","slug":"saleswomen-requested-to-join-associations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/saleswomen-requested-to-join-associations\/","title":{"rendered":"Saleswomen requested to join associations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the world is celebrating the International Day for Women this Thursday 8 March 2018, Bujumbura saleswomen who do not have permanent places where they keep their goods say that they get no help from richer women who owns associations. Leaders of women\u2019s associations ask them to join the latter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8151\" style=\"width: 446px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8151\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8151\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Vendeuse-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Fruit and vegetable saleswomen in Bujumbura town&quot;.\" width=\"436\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Vendeuse-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Vendeuse-600x402.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Vendeuse.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Fruit and vegetable saleswomen in Bujumbura town&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe know that there are associations but we have no access to them. These are for women who have money. There is an obligation to pay contributions every month but poor women like us cannot afford to pay it\u201d, says a woman met in town.<\/p>\n<p>Some women say they are not able to pay membership contributions. A young saleswoman met in Nyakabiga zone, claims that she cannot belong to an association because she cannot have the required contributions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Associations should stop asking for contributions to allow everyone to join them,&#8221; she says, adding that they always need some kind of support, especially when they are in the business world.<\/p>\n<p>Immacul\u00e9e Nsengiyumva, Secretary General of the Association of Burundi Women Entrepreneurs (AFAB) says saleswomen have to get together to form small groups or associations for their sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p>For her, this will contribute to the promotion of women&#8217;s self-development through coaching and access to micro-credits and other benefits. &#8220;We cannot help them if they are not together&#8221;, she also says.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of the International Women\u2019s Day 2018 is \u201cTime is now: Rural and urban activists transforming women\u2019s lives\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the world is celebrating the International Day for Women this Thursday 8 March 2018, Bujumbura saleswomen who do not have permanent places where they keep their goods say that they get no help from richer women who owns associations. Leaders of women\u2019s associations ask them to join the latter. \u201cWe know that there are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,670],"tags":[1212,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8152,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8149\/revisions\/8152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}