Coalition of Political Parties’ Women in Liberia (COPPWIL) has marked the 2021 International Women’s Day (IWD) with female nurses at the John F. Kennedy (JFK) Medical Centre.
IWD is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.
COPPWIL is a body of women drawn from all 28 registered political parties in Liberia, with the aim of promoting women’s participation in politics and political governance.
As part of its gesture, the women group donated assorted food and anti-Covid-19 items to nurses working at the JFK.
Speaking at the presentation of the food items to the hospital, the Vice President for Operations of COPPWIL, Rosette Jones, said the group’s gesture was aimed at recognising and celebrating the achievements of women in society.
‘We are calling on the National Elections Commission to strengthen the election laws to give women a chance to sit at the same table as men to discuss and pass legislation affecting women’, she said.
Liberia’s Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Williameta Tarr, recalled the role women have played over the years in ensuring peace in the nation.
‘Women are giants in this world. Without women the world would have stopped’, the minister said.
She urged women to support each other so as to achieve a singular goal.
“I want to ask you in this public manner to help lift each other because it is only by supporting each other that we can achieve our goal of political governance’, she added.
‘We must hold each other’s hand and that is the only way we can compete’.
Receiving the items on behalf of the nurses, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the JFK, Sia Comanor, lauded COPPWIL for its kind gesture.
‘Thank you for all that you are doing. Thank you for challenging men. The future of the world and Liberian lies in the hands of women’, Comanor said.
‘Let us support each other. This is where women are and born. By identifying with the people in here mean you have identified with the future generations because this is where the future generations are born’.
Source: The New Dawn
Photo source: JFK Medical Centre
