Encourage, Support And Build Women Confidence

Women and girls in Fiji need to be encouraged, supported and given the confidence to help them prosper.

This is the call of the Assistant Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection, Sashi Kiran while officiating in the Westpac International Women’s Day Family Walk at Lautoka City this morning.

Ms Kiran said support for women should start from home.

“With all the pressure from home, work, social media and society, how do we support them? In every sphere they working in, they hesitate when they go in the public arena. There are many factors. They don’t feel confident, they don’t feel trained, they don’t have emotional and mental support and we do not know whether we will do the right thing,” Ms Kiran said.

“We will be criticized, we will be under public scrutiny.

We need to evolve a lot more development leadership programmes for girls. We need to relook at how we build support around women. There should be support around the health of women on professional and grassroots level.”

Ms Kiran, Westpac staff family members, Silktails rugby league team players and stakeholders participated in the walk around the Lautoka City waterfront as part of International Women’s Day celebration which will be commemorated next Friday around the world.

Silktails rugby league team players participated in the walk around the Lautoka City waterfront as part of International Women’s Day celebration.

The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day is ‘Invest in Women, Accelerate Progress.’

Westpac Suva staff family members also participated in their Suva walk this morning.

More in the Fiji Sun on Monday.

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