Nabakooba urges women in Mityana to embrace new technologies

The minister who made the remarks on an event organised by women in Mityana yesterday to celebrate the women month – March – said the new technologies would help them in their day-to-day work which in turn would help improve their livelihoods.

“I encourage you women of Mityana to embrace the new technologies. These technologies will help you in your day-to-day work which will help you improve your livelihoods,” she said, adding that the internet has many platforms which can feed them with useful knowledge in agriculture and business among others.

This year, the International Women Day was celebrated globally under the theme: DitiALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality.

During the event, Nabakooba also hinted on the new $217m (sh803b) World Bank funded project that was launched by President Museveni on women day March 8^th.

The project, Nabakooba said, is meant to support women in business to help uplift them.

“I also want to talk about the money that our dear President Museveni launched on women’s day. The money is meant to support women in business to uplift themselves. I encourage you to participate in this project when the opportunity avails,” she said.

The minister also encouraged women in Mityana to take advantage of the Parish Development Model saying the money involved is also meant to uplift people out of poverty.

“Mityana is one of the districts that has so far received some money for the Parish Development Model. I encourage you take advantage of this money so you improve your livelihoods,” she said, adding the district has about 35% of its population living below the poverty line which is not desirable.

Nabakooba who urged the women to work hard also donated hand hoes. She said these would be a good tool in fighting poverty in the district.

She thanked President Museveni for his efforts to support programmes that empower women.