Climate Change The Role of Women, Mr. Kenneth Nana Amoateng,

Temple, March 12, GNA- International Women's Day was
marked in the Tema Metropolis at Bakuman at Tema Newt
Town on Tuesday with a call for the use of environmentally
friendly cooking and preservation technologies to reduce the
effects of climate change.

Speaking on the theme, Climate Change The Role of Women,
Mr. Kenneth Nana Amoateng, the Chief Executive of
Abibimman Foundation, said climate change affected all
people but women especially often bore the brunt due to their
central and crucial role as homemakers.

Mr. Amoateng said women were used as a pillar in the
campaign because they often faced challenges which were
compounded by socio economic inequality.

According to him, the good news was that women were
pushing to the forefront of science, agriculture and natural
resource management related fields and had tremendous
potential to alter the direction of our common future.

He said his group, in collaboration with Netherlands
Development Organization (SNV), Ghana Alliance for Clean
Cook Stove, Community Development of the Tema
Metropolitan Assembly, has collectively put in place measures
to help local women ensure proper conservation of energy and
secure sustainable livelihoods.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency Dr. Elvis Donkor,
Founder, Action for Medical Accidents Victim, said fishmongers
were exposed to health hazards such as upper respiratory
diseases due the excessive inhalation of smoke from ovens
manufactured with poor materials.

Madam Selina Mensah, an environmentalist, advised the
women of Bakuman to use the modern and improved stoves.
GNA

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