Luanda – The National Assembly (parliament) Speaker, Carolina Cerqueira, highlighted this Sunday, in Luanda, the African women's role as peace and conflict resolution promoters, as well as agents of dialogue and reconciliation.
Carolina Cerquaira who spoke during an activity promoted by Luanda's Municipal Administration, as part of the African Women's Day, to be celebrated on the 31st of this month, focused on the women's role in politics, in social activity, in promoting citizenship and as a foundation for the informal sector and entrepreneurship.
She highlighted that women have faced, with resilience, the food crisis, the energy crisis, the value crisis, the political crisis caused by human conflicts and the climate crisis, overcoming themselves and finding alternative and innovative solutions to preserve family stability and sustainability of communities.
The Angolan parliament Speaker maintained that education and professional training, scientific research and access to new technologies and artificial intelligence are girls' dreams that can become reality with institutional support and civil and religious society organizations.
For her part, the Luanda's municipal administrator, Milca Caquesse, said that the initiative aimed to bring together the voices of several women to focus on the role of education in the lives of girls and women, with a view to African Development.
The meeting brought together more than 200 women from various sectors of Luanda society, including the minister of Social Action, Family and Promotion of Women, Paula Sacramento Neto.
African Women's Day was established on July 31, 1962, in Dar-es Salaam, Tanzania, with the aim of ensuring better education, respect, appreciation and the opening of the employment market for women on the continent's birthplace.
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