Empowering Fisherwomen
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
More Than Just Seaweed
Women in East Sumba are processing dried seaweed into food products, multiplying their earnings.
These days Siti Bariyah seldom has to get her feet wet in the Sawu Sea. She and other women in East Sumba’s Hadakamali village, East Nusa Tenggara, once had to work at sea every day, caring for the seaweed they had planted along a line of rumpon-a type fishing cage-not far from the water’s edge.
"We would plant sea
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