Jaffna
District Fisheries Solidarity organized the “ Punthalei” District Women
Committee meeting at the center of the organization on 6 of June 2020. The committee focused on some
issues such as the existing situation of the women headed families and
displaced women, difficulties that the women face due to take loans from the
micro credit financial institutes. Involvement of micro credit financial institution
is one of the major problems of the community in the island wide. There are
number of privet micro credit financial institutes which provide loans for the
people in the rural areas of the country. Most of women of the family have
taken loans from the above financial institutes. Most of financial institutes
have not been registered in the central bank. Every financial institute should
be registered in the central bank but there are many giving loans for the
people without any monitoring of the central bank. There are different systems
of the financial institutes to get the loans back. According to the information,
some women have taken 5 or 6 loans at the same period from different micro
credit financial institutes. Financial institutes also provide loans without
considering the situation. Taking number of loans create problems of especially
women to pay back the installments. Women are taking loans under the high
interest and different conditions. The district women committee took this issue
to discuss and assess the situation in the area. As well as, it discussed the
future plans of the district women committee in the meeting. This meeting was
organized by Miss. Jeyachithra and Miss. Thadsajani, animators of Jaffna
District Fisheries Solidarity. Mr. Anthony Jesudasan, Coordinator,
People to People Dialogue on Peace and Sustainable Development and Mrs. Lavina Hasanthi, Gender and Development Coordinator
participated representing secretariat of National Fisheries Solidarity
Movement.
