Financial Inclusion: Women a Priority
DURING the implementation of the previous National Financial Inclusion Strategy 2, there were lessons drawn based on interactions with stakeholders on the barriers that limited women to fully engage in the financial services.
In this...
A Mother’s Sacrifice in Flipping Clothes Business
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU
The struggle to meet her children daily needs and wants is what forced Mrs. Often Metaling go into flipping clothes business or reselling clothes to generate income at the Honiara Central Market.Mrs....
MJ’s Passion for Helping Women in Solomon Islands
BY JOY OFASIA
It had always been Mary Elizabeth Ramosaea known as MJ’s vision and passion to help people in the community.
It all started when MJ was only 3 years old when she started travelling...
Tailoring Business Desperate For Survival
BY JOY OFASIA
“I wish to have a better space to improve my little home tailoring business like most tailors do, instead all this time, I work at home taking orders from local clients whenever...
Facing Gender Inequality Head-on Helps SolTuna Succeed
By Camille Funnell, IFC Communications
PRUDENCE Tekurade is a woman on a mission. The 28-year-old mother of three saved enough from her job at SolTuna, the Solomon Islands’ only tuna processing plant, to buy a...
Addressing Domestic Violence in the Workplace
FOR Solomon Airlines, the national airline of Solomon Islands, it was a launch of a different kind.
It was not about a new flight to an exciting destination. The launch still though did spark a...
Salome Shares Fruit of Success
BY JOY OFASIA
SALOME Maraitehi has gone from selling cakes for a few cents to being a shopkeeper and caterer with big plans for setting up a conference centre.
Salome, who lives in Kirakira, Maikira province,...
Huge Challenges Faced By Rural Guadalcanal Women Farmers
BY JOY OFASIA
HEFTY market fees and lack of adequate spaces at the Honiara Central Market are some of the challenges experienced by rural women from Guadalcanal Province when trying to sell produces.
According to the...
Lack of Space Concerns Vendors
BY JOY OFASIA
WOMEN vendors who are selling clothing products at the Honiara Central Market have raised complaints as to why they have been selling their products for years sitting in a very little area.
Speaking...
Strong Single Mother Raises Family
BY JOY OFASIA
MOTHERHOOD can be the most beautiful experience any women can have but it can also be the hardest when she has no one to share the responsibility of parenthood.
Maevalyn Kokoa, 60, has...
