Katsina
State Government says it has trained 479 women in skill acquisition and trades
from 2011 to 2017 to enable them to be self-reliant.
Dr
Badiyya Hassan, the State Commissioner for Women Affairs, spoke at the
graduation for the participants on Tuesday in Katsina.
Hassan
said: “The state government trained the women in tailoring, shoe and
bag-making, knitting, soap and pomade making and perfume production.
“The
state government will give equipment to 21 women that excelled during their
training in different trades.
“It will also give each of the
479 women N5, 000 to start business.
“The women multi-purpose training centre in Katsina will also
issue certificates to all the 479 women that participated in the training,” she
said.
Hassan said that the state
government was committed to empowering women and ensures the realisation of
stable families in the state.
She said that the state government had commenced the renovation
of three skill acquisition training centres in each of the three senatorial
districts in the state.
The commissioner urged women to form cooperative societies to
enable them to benefit from the loan facility granted by the state government
to fight poverty.
Earlier, Hajiya Fatimah Mohammed, the Principal, Women
Multipurpose Centre, urged the state government to provide more training
equipment in the centre.
“The women multipurpose needed
more training equipment to train more women in skill acquisition.
“Many women want to be trained in the area of handcrafts, but we
lack the facilities to cover all of them,” the commissioner said.
The acting Sole Administrator, Kaita Local Government Area,
Hajiya Ummah Abdullahi, advised the beneficiaries to make proper use of the
equipment given to them.
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