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Posted - 12 Sep 2014 : 14:23:37
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Women of Guinea.
The drama that Guinean disabilities live, it is primarily the ignorance and indifference that they and all of society vis-à-vis the living conditions that they have. Portraits.
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They are very rare, Guinean disabilities who are able to formulate specific problems, apart from the difficulties of family life. Example of indifference and neglect of disability issues is the object in Guinea: it is almost impossible to find an association or any form of organization might be interested in the life led by people with disabilities, who had thought of approaching it from the perspective of gender. In the forest associations claiming the defense and promotion of people with disabilities, is often merely rehashing "discrimination and marginalization with handicaps."
But problems there fail. Starting with the fate of M'Ballou Camara Aicha Bangoura and two young paraplegic girls who have established their base in the plaza of the stadium on September 28 in the town of Dixinn, a district of the capital Conakry. Here, Monday to Sunday from 8:00 to 2:00 p.m., they beg for mercy and compassion of passersby. Two girls in school age but who have not made their way to school; their respective parents have not seriously considered. But both claim to be able to work as a hairdresser. Aisha even said it was ready to sew if they have a machine that could be rotated by hand.
Image: M'Ballou Aicha Camara and Bangoura, beggars in Conakry.
And if nobody thought to find another alternative to these two girls who claim a friendship based on their common handicap is certainly in part because the spoils of begging is good for something: "In ordinary times we earn up to 50,000 Guinean francs per day (€ 5.73). But now as times are particularly tough, we win between 10 and 35 000 GNF per day, "they say. An amount they say give to their parents. Aisha says: "With regard to me, since my mother is sick, sometimes I give him a party so that it buys products." In terms of M'Ballou, she said her parents tap into revenues for "repair his wheelchair when needed." And the importance of the social role of these girls for their families is not just a financial contribution. Meanwhile, they entrust bread or ice to sell at auction water.
The fate of Cire Diallo, disabled mother of three children, she has established its base at the roundabout Hamdallaye, a suburb of the capital, is definitely not better. Native Kouroussa, a town in Upper Guinea, Waxed practice what could be called a "seasonal begging." It reveals arriving in Conakry after heavy rains and want to return in the twilight of the dry season. It justifies its activities by the need to find something to boost her business. In fact, it would be a few packs of cigarettes, candles, batteries, etc.
Image: Cire Diallo, beggar, with her latest boy Mamady.
Spending the whole day with her two children, Kadiatou and Mamady under the hot sun this season, Diallo said Waxed share her husband with a second wife, which itself suffers no disability. Her husband, a farmer in Kouroussa, would not be bad for it, but "does not have the means to help me," she pleads. Meanwhile, the only desire is to find Waxed a tricycle that would allow him to abandon the crutches tired.
Aged 39 years and working as a secretary for the National Directorate of Social Welfare, Djénabou Diallo seems to have had more luck. It certainly did not push studies to the next level, but she had the presence of mind to turn to a professional school after he failed the baccalaureate. And for three years, she may enroll in the public service. Activist in many associations defending the rights of people with disabilities whose great Guinean Federation of Associations of Disabled Persons (FEGUIPAH), it nevertheless complained of not having yet found a husband to his liking ...
The difficulty in finding a spouse, this is the main problem that advanced Mariam Sylla, president of the association of single women with disabilities Guinea. According to her, men perceive women as potential brides carrying charges and additional costs, which is why they are generally very hard to find a family home. Furthermore, says Mariam Sylla, "disabled women who find husbands often have their social success. It is because of this that they want to marry them. Couples These are often built around calculations interest and not authentic feelings. All disabled women who have husbands, they are the ones who support their husbands and children. " The problem according to her, is that a certain social vision perceives rather negatively a woman who has no home. Which, as a result, would require a lot of women with disabilities to be served in their matrimonial home, without any possibility of reaction or protest. This, Mariam Sylla said the experience in his own family where she is the only one to take care of all the costs that requires the education of his three children.
In this rather gloomy, Mrs. Fatoumata Konaté born Bah, is an exception. Being deprived of the use of his right leg, a result of polio at age 7, she had, with the support of its relatively wealthy father, managed to study up to the university, where she is out with a degree in accounting-management. Having asserted his skills in a number of private companies, she proclaims with a certain pride: "I am currently inspector of financial and accounting services and I am lieutenant of customs." With her husband, deputy director in charge of civic education in the town of Matam, she had three children the first of which is currently in the third year of law school. Although she claims that her marriage has nothing to do with its relative success, however, she says: "My husband, suffering, is in France where I managed, with my little means to evacuate." The policy is also an area in which invests Mrs. Konaté. She is the first vice-president of the women's section of the town of Dixinn, in the Rally of the People of Guinea (RPG, the ruling party). And it does not exclude the idea of #8203;#8203;being on the list of his party, the account the next parliamentary elections. Political ambitions may well encounter, she said, some "prejudice and stereotypes." It expresses skepticism bluntly: "When you're looking to do something, you reply that you are disabled and you are not able to this or that ... But I will not give up. "
Image: Djénabou Diallo, secretary for the National Directorate of Social Welfare.
Image: Mariam Sylla, president of the Guinean Association of Women with Disabilities.
As we can see, Guinea, most disabled women suffer first from ignorance of their rights. Very often, their fight is limited to the search for sustenance, our daily bread. Schooling, employment and access to positions of responsibility and decision-making are unfortunately often considered by them to be of the order of the inaccessible.
Boubacar Barry Sanso, February 2012.
Source: http://www.yanous.com/espaces/femmes/femmes120203.html
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