100, 000 Women From 20 Countries Set To Climb Mount Kilimanjaro - The Whistler
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The women, mostly rural farmers, are drawn from Nigeria, Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe etc.
The main event will be the climb by the farmers to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro to symbolize the challenge facing women and represents the starting point to dissemination the message throughout Africa.
Amongst the climbers are two representatives from SWOFON, Mary Afan and Lovelyn Ejim who are also members of the network of Rural Women Farmers across Africa and are already in Tanzania to be joined by others from Nigeria at the assembly.
The #Kilimanjaro Initiative is spearheaded by ActionAid International. It was conceived during a meeting of rural women and civil society organisation in 2012 in Dar es Salam Tanzania.