End Human Rights Abuses Against Alleged Witches

Dear Readers

Songtaba brings greetings from Ghana and want to extend it sincere gratitude to it cherishes donors for their continuous support to End Human Rights Violations. This quarter SONGTABA wants to share interesting stories on their routine monitoring of the 19 reintegrated women (the women were 20, unfortunately we lost one person.) who were supported with grants after their reintegration to do livelihood activities to support their income at home. 

As reported earlier, some of the women are into petty trading whiles others are doing peasant farming among others. SONGTABA monitoring has revealed that the majority of the reintegrated women are doing quite well and healthy. They are still continuing with petty trading and some are doing diversification of their farms, this has help them to be a bit food sufficient to feed themselves. Some of them are able to sell their produce for additional income.

 Abiba 65 from waribugu community was supported with grants through the help of SONGTABA and Global giving share her stories.” I sincerely thank all those who supported my reintegration and the grant support given to me. I have been able to go in to peasant farming and I cultivate  different kind of crops such as maize and beans on my one hector of land for the past two years. Last year I was able to harvest 6 bags of maize from my one hector of land and I was able to have enough food to feed on for the whole year. Now  I have seen a lot more significant improvement in my live in terms of my basic needs especially food and health. What interest me most is how the donors support has brought back a smile in face and the restoration of my dignity as a woman.”

 Dear Readers!

Songtaba wish to extend it sincere appreciation to it loyal donors for their kind and continuous support to End Human Rights Violations. The quarter has been very interesting and SONGTABA wish to share with it donors how some of the reintegrated women who were supported financially are now economically empowered to restored back their dignity.

During the quarter under review SONGTABA continue it routine monitoring of reintegrated allege witches and came out with interesting stories. These women in 2018 were supported financially to enable them do petty trading after being reintegrated. It is worth reporting that 16 out of 20 women that were re-integrated and supported with business capital have significantly increased their monies through diversification. Majority of them went in to petty trading and are able to increase their household and the community economy. This has helped these women to become more economically independent without asking of support from their families.

One of the women Fatima 49 years old from Tindan community shares her experiences after the support she received from SONGTABA. Thank you for the support, I have been able to invest to expand the grant income into buying and selling of maize after two years of doing petty trading.  I started with only two bags of maize but currently the number of bags has increased from 2 bags to five bags. Now I have been able to used part of the interest I get from my business to pay for my grandchild school fees who was staying with at the camp and have also reserved three bowls of maize as seeds to plant on my 1 acre plot of land this year.

My life has really improved after leaving the camp. I have started living a normal life of dignity and fealing more secured because Songtaba constantly visits me.