UNDP Donates To Rural Women Market Vendors
In recognising International Women’s Day, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) handed over 20 laptops, 20 portable printers and scanners for rural women market vendors in 13 Fijian municipalities.
Sunday 05 March 2023 | 11:02
Assistant Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation Sashi Kiran (second from right) and UNDP Pacific Office in Fiji Resident Representative Dawn Del Rio (second from left) during the handing over at the UNDP Pacific office in Suva during the celebration of International Women’s Day on March 2, 2023. Photo: Ashna Kumar
In recognising International Women’s Day, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) handed over 20 laptops, 20 portable printers and scanners for rural women market vendors in 13 Fijian municipalities.
The handover is expected to directly benefit between 3000 to 4000 urban and rural market vendors and farmers.
An estimated 75 per cent of whom women farmers trade at the 13 municipal markets around the central, western, northern and eastern provinces of Fiji, two municipal markets and five ring road markets in Vanuatu, and two municipal markets in Solomon Islands.
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