PRAYER POINT

From the Voice for the Voiceless booklet
Female Labourers Definition Female labourers are women who work too long, too hard and too much, especially in back breaking manual labour.

Out of the 550 million working poor in the world, an estimated 330 million, or 60%, are women. The majority of women earn on average about 3/4 of the pay of males for the same work. An African peasant woman typically works 16 hours daily trudging long distances to fetch firewood, animal fodder and water, growing and harvesting food, tending crops, and cooking and caring for her family. This leaves little time to seek education and training, the very things that enable women to break the cycle of low status and poverty. Worldwide, over 60% of people working in family enterprises without pay are women. On a one hectare farm in the Indian Himalayans, a pair of bullock's works 1064 hours, a man works 1212 hours and a woman 3485 hours in a year. Who is like our God who rescues the poor from those too strong for them?

Psalm 35:10
PRAY This verse over the exploited women who are forced to work too long, too hard, too much For godly business owners
For Bible based family structures

ACT - Reflect on the biblical concept of work and appropriate rest. Apply it in your life.