The first girl from the Dominican Republic, Raquel Arbaje de Abinader, today gave the impression before her Latin American counterparts in the high-level virtual assembly on positive reports of the empowerment of rural women in the context of a pandemic.
The assembly was held as a component of the #Mujeres Rural campaign with Rights. This initiative brings together 25 public, personal and multilateral organizations and entities convened through the Alliance of Heads of State and Joint Representatives (ALMA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
In addition to the Dominican firstArray Paraguay, ALMA’s first general coordinator, Silvana Abdo, and FAO Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, Julio Berdegué, attended the meeting.
Also Argentina’s first, Fabiola Yez; Brazil, Michelle Bolsonaro; Chile, Cecilia Morel; Ecuador, Rocoo González; Honduras, Ana García de Hernández; Paraguay, Silvana Abdo and Panama, Yazcon Colon de Cortizo.
Some of the first girls presented audiovisuals and reports on the paintings of their respective governments on behalf of rural women, mainly agricultural producers and livestock producers.
For the Dominican First Lady it is an honor to participate for the first time in a meeting of ALMA, whose objectives express the commitment of each first girl to the provision and long term of their respective countries and, on this occasion, to rural women in particular. .
He explained that just two days ago, President Luis Abinader Corona took office and that huge demands marked the cases of his inauguration by the sudden appearance of COVID-19. The pandemic has exacerbated the country’s structural ills, punishing the socially and economically disadvantaged population with greater virulence.
“However, we are able to fight with the most productive weapons a government can have: efficiency, justice, fairness, transparency and antecedentity to concrete measures that make the lives of the majority,” he said.
She said that as a Dominican she aspires to help her countrymen and is willing to actively paint for the good fortune of President Abinader Corona’s goals. Abinader’s government programme expressly defends the economic self-sufficiency and equivalent rights of women farmers and recognizes its invaluable contribution to the fight against hunger.
First Lady Arbaje de Abinader reported that in the country, rural women’s agriculture accounts for 43%.
He said the Dominicans were running in combination to avoid the effects of COVID-19 and save the FAO representative in the country, Rodrigo Casta-eda, just a few days ago, from wasting progress in combating the virus.
“To avoid this risk, President Abinader Corona announced in his oath that Agracola Bank will have five billion pesos, or about $86 million, for the interest-free financing of new plantations. It will market and provide technical assistance for the processing of certain foods. security, ” he said.
With this measure, he added, amid the pandemic, 25% of peasants legally entitled to own the productive ensembles.
She explained that as new authorities they will face the demanding situations of the pandemic and put all their political will to reduce poverty, ensure food security and enforce the rights of rural women.
“I warmly welcome the Rural Women, Women with Rights crusade as an opportunity to articulate and publicize regional policies for rural women. However, the recent installation of our government workplace asks me to take the time to reflect on the scope of our participation in this initiative and to identify imaginable institutional allies,” said Arbaje de Abinader.
In his presentation, FAO Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean said that the UN, through CEPALC, estimated that excessive poverty in the region will accumulate through 28 million people.
He estimated that if this projection was realized we would build through 75 million hungry people, it would go back 30 years to the 1990s, leaving aside the effort, the paintings of many governments and social actors.
“Rural poverty is expected to reach 24% this year and rural poverty is expected to reach an impressive 42% never before noticed. There are another 10 million people who will get into this dreadful scenario where income is not enough to unload a basic food basket, ” climbed Berdegué.
He said those figures were not a transparent destination; it’s not a game already played; those are projections.
“These figures are a call to action, a call to mobilize us all in foreign organizations, civil society, personal companies, parliaments or governments to prevent those projections from happening,” he said.
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