A non-governmental organisation (NGO) under the auspices of Society for Family Health (SFH) has trained over 2000 married young women on various skills acquisition programmes to improve their livelihood.
The project director, Roselyn Ode who stated this yesterday said that the training was in partnership with the Kaduna State government and aimed at improving the effectiveness of the exercise among the young women.
She said the training inculcated ‘can do spirit’ in them to learn and initiate business skills with their clients to enable them to succeed.
Ode said the empowerment component of the A360 programme provides a holistic system where adolescent married girls access skills of their choice and are empowered and supported to start up/ expand businesses of their own, which would improve their quality of life and ensure sustainable sources of their livelihood.
“Of the over 2,000 adolescent married girls that were trained, over one thousand have already established their businesses while 200 have upskilled and expanded their businesses. They were trained in the areas of; poultry farming, skin bags, fishponds, soap making, scents, blankets, and cakes among others,” he said.
The state director of health, A’ishatu Sadiq, said the response from the community leaders and traditional institutions was supportive and encouraging.
Some of the participants thanked SFH for the training and promised to step down the training to others.
