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White Scallion Production :New Opportunity for Muslim Women in Lanao. AMDF Philippines. Household Economy : Sources of HH Welfare. NON-GOVT: Food Skills Knowledge Education health. NEW OPPORTUNITY: Additional cash Food Solidarity among women Education Health Assets of women.
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White Scallion Production :New Opportunity for Muslim Women in Lanao AMDF Philippines
Household Economy : Sources of HH Welfare NON-GOVT: Food Skills Knowledge Education health NEW OPPORTUNITY: Additional cash Food Solidarity among women Education Health Assets of women State : CCT Education Health Veteran’s Pension Extension Services CARE WORK: Free cost on caregiver and home manager FARM WORK: Food Farm equipments and materials School tuition Home furniture/facilities and equipment Farm input Weapon* Jewelry* Payment of debts Batangan-Basingan Bubong, LDS (517 HH) OBLIGATORY SOCIAL NETWORKIBG: Social security; Social investment convertible to cash PRODUCTIVE WORK: Clothes, educational needs, health needs, NATURAL RESOURCES: Food Medicine Health maintenance Maintenance of Home management COMMUNITY WORK : Social satisfaction and belongingness of HH members; Spiritual contentment
Women of Lanao del Sur, Mindanao, PHLAreas to negotiate More care and maintenance of the farm to be given to men Change in the household division of labor: women’s workload lessen and increase workload for men CARE WORK FARM WORK New market opportunity Areas to Negotiate BELIEFS and PRACTICES Advocacy on expanding women’s role from merely reproductive to include productive role, the benefit of this expansion to the family, the history and principles of Islam that support this ASSETS AND RESOURCES Agreement of the community on conditions that allow women to travel alone Documentation of what women own Practice of social obligation (tabang) to be harnessed for capital build-up for women’s livelihood
Factors to Motivate New Opportunity New Skills and Knowledge (Business management, production skills and technology, marketing skills and knowledge) • Negotiation • Mobility • Time • Carework • Decision-making • (education, health, tabang) Social Support System (Kapamagawida) Income Beliefs and Cultural Norms (mobility of women- confined to the house, provision is left to men, women takes care of family) Interpretation of Islamic Teachings (women have freedom to work and earn outside the HH)
Commodity White Scallion • What? • Allumfamily • They may be cooked or used as raw ingredient in Asian recipes. • Essential part of Meranao recipes • Benefits • low in calories and high in energy. • has disease-fighting chemicals • eating half a scallion a day increases the "good kind" of cholesterol • increases circulation, prevents blood clots and lowers blood pressure. • offer an excellent source of vitamin A and vitamin C, plus potassium, magnesium, calcium and fiber • Why? • Wide demand in the local market • Few local producers • Woman-friendly ( not laborious, easy to manage and maintain, easy to harvest, familiarity with commodity) • Resilient plant (resists flooding, weather changes)
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Being economically independent allows freedom of oppression from your own family. After the death of my husband, I took over managing our farm. Now my siblings cannot belittle me becoz I managed to send my children to school without asking for their aid. My dignity and self-respect is intact. The difference between men and women having income is that men only cares of profiting from their livelihood while women always think carefully of how their profit contribute to the well-being of the entire household. It is important to women to look after themselves economically. They cannot depend on men alone. When my husband got sick, I needed to be very resourceful or our children might have died from hunger. I cannot afford to experience that again. Now my husband salutes me for surviving that trial. Islam does not promote idleness of women.
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