Skill Acquisition: NGO Trains 1000 Women On Various Skills

A non-governmental organisation, Women Liberation and Transformation says it has trained more than 1000 women and youths in different communities in Lagos State on various skills acquisitions, to improve on their livelihood.

The Executive Director of the group, Mrs Olanike Mic-Taiwo, said this at an empowerment programme for 100 women in Orisumbare Community, Ayobo, Lagos.

She said, “We are presently carrying out a project in Orisumbare Community in Ayobo, Lagos, and the project is all about the economic empowerment for the women in this community.

“In the past two years, we have been going from different communities in Lagos State to train women on how to make bar soap, shampoo, liquid soap, nail remover, body cream.

“The essence of the project basically is for women to be economically empowered because when both man and woman are working then that is when we can have a stable family.

“This programme has to a large extent brought a reduction in the occurrence of gender based violence that the country has been witnessing”, she added.