Secretary of State in charge of Social Affairs, Mouna Osman Aden, visited last Monday on the heights of the town of Arta, capital of the eponymous region. And, it must be specified, along with several of his colleagues in government, MPs from the region, senior officials of his cabinet and the Djibouti Social Development Agency (ADDS).
The ministerial delegation included the Minister of Women and Family, Moumina Houmed Hassan, Minister of Education and Vocational Training Mustapha Mohamed Mahamoud, the Minister of Health, Djama Elmi Okieh, the Minister for Decentralisation, Hamadou Mohamed Aramis.
Upon arrival on site, the actors of the executive were welcomed by the prefect of the region, Abdillahi Darar Okieh, and the president of the regional council, Omar Djama Odowa. The coming of the distinguished visitors was part of the continuity of the broad education campaign and information that the Secretary of State in charge of Social Affairs, was conducted a few weeks earlier from the beneficiaries of the credit union savings and credit (CPEC) in the capital. Ms. Mouna Osman Aden and his government colleagues held a consultation meeting with bullhorns local fairer sex at the headquarters of the Regional Council of Arta.
The meeting was punctuated with interactive discussions about various topics of common interest, including microcredit. Women represent the majority of the clientele CPEC Arta, successively highlighted the positive changes introduced by the democratization of access to services of microfinance in their lives. Each other and have issued a series of demands on accelerating the financial empowerment of vulnerable sections of their territorial process. In this sense, they have defended the relevance of an upward revision of the amounts of loans from microfinance institutions (MFIs). As with the shared ambition weighty arguments beneficiaries of CPEC Arta is to engage in gainful activities, in need of substantial financial resources, and their repayment capacity become stronger over time.
Such expectations highlight the crucial role of MFIs in the fight against poverty. Incidentally, this financing levers offer a range of support services designed to facilitate the creation of income-generating activities, improve the financial and economic inclusion of the poor households, and promote local development through the exploitation of real potential areas of craft, trade, mining, fishing, and tourism in each region of the country.
Remember also that access to micro credits CPEC allows client, members of solidarity groups to take their business revenue sources but also to develop them. In doing so, they contribute to the well-being of their families in education, care health care decision, and food security. All realities that spend the convergence of microfinance priorities with those of the various programs implemented by the ADDS in the Arta region. These include the ASERI (Assistance Program University students from the interior regions), the PNSF (scholarship program for school children of the poorest families), the PARISER (support program the creation of infrastructure in the interior regions 5) and PROPEJA (promotion program of employing young people and handicrafts). Still, the young beneficiaries PROPEJA can access microfinance loans.
The finding explains quite Upcoming antennas doors of the Secretariat of State in charge of Social Affairs (SEAS), in the interior regions. Decentralized services where users will be informed about the reasons for and objectives of the projects implemented by the EEAS. Besides, Ms. Mouna Osman Aden announced to the audience gathered on Monday at the headquarters of the Regional Council of Arta. She assured the audience the full availability of skills of his cabinet and his own in the coverage of the most pressing needs of needy people in the region. She further called Arta managed to remain integral in the pursuit of local development processes.
Ultimate strong signal: the Secretary of State in charge of Social Affairs, took part in the course of the ceremony of laying the first stone of a daycare. Once commissioned, the kindergarten will be under the supervision of the Ministry of Women and Family.
The day ended with a lunch in the hotel school of Arta.
