From the global Blue Community World Council of Churches (WCC) @Oikoumene :
🚰 “Access to water is a gendered issue—women and girls bear the heaviest burden.”
Week 2 of #SevenWeeksForWater 2025 dives into the feminization of water poverty in Africa and how faith communities can respond. 💙
The second reflection of the Seven Weeks for Water 2025 series of the WCC Ecumenical Water Network was written by the late Dr Agnes Abuom, former moderator of the WCC central committee. Dr Abuom was the first woman and first African to hold this important position. She was also the executive director of TAABCO Research and Development Consultants, Nairobi, Kenya. In her reflection, being an African woman around the International Women’s Day, she explores the linkages between poverty and water scarcity and their impact on women. In 2017, Kenya was reeling under a serious drought which was deteriorating the situation for women as they were mostly responsible for fetching water for their families.
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