Expert: Women need to be daring
Kibaha. Women in the country have been urged to make use of available opportunities to acquire knowledge and skills to improve their living standards.
The call was made by Dr Naomi Makota shortly after she was conferred with a PhD degree by the Open University of Tanzania (OUT) during a graduation ceremony, which took place at the university’s grounds at Kibaha in Coast Region over the weekend.
The fresh expert, who specialised in the field of urban areas formalisation projects, said women have immense contribution in facilitating the achievement of the fifth phase government’s objective of becoming a middle income and an industrialised country by 2025 by using available opportunities to achieve economic independency.
“We have a big contribution in achieving the government’s objective of becoming a middle income and industrialised country by 2025. It is high time we shunned primitive beliefs that women are dependent,” Dr Makota said.
For his part, Dr Flora Kiwonde, who was one of the graduates specialising in the role of ICT in facilitating education on environmental conservation in primary schools, urged women to be daring.
She said it is possible for women to go for higher learning while continuing with other responsibilities as a mother and a potential figure in the society through Open University’s department of Distance Learning.
