“ActionAid through CARD has reshaped our lives and unite us as women, and for the first time ever, give us strength to rally behind each other to wind lives and earn incomes for ourselves”. Says by Ama Basing, a 37 year old woman, a wife of the Billaw Koro (Chief) and organizer to the Landmeh Women Group at Billaw

Billaw is a sponsorship community which many women were not effectively organized into groups and their mobilization was difficult hence denied them access to various local empowerment resources from both government and various NGOs at the community level, until now.

 Ama continues, “Since the training on how to manage our groups effectively and ensure the success of our livelihood projects, the Lanmeh Women Group has ever since been very active and was able to mobilize large quantity of sheanuts. CARD linked us to a purchasing company and now I am earning high incomes through the proceeds of the sheanut. Just last week I sold 4 bags of nuts and earned around GH¢125 income at home. They buy from us in the community because we are well organized with high understanding of how to handle our own issues”.  She concluded that “Our group is appealing to many people”.

Ama exclaimed ‘we have done it so that other women can also learn from us so that we can be liberated from our hitherto subordination’.