The Adashe Women Empowerment Society, in collaboration with Family Homes Funds, has constructed no fewer than 100 units of houses to accommodate widows , orphans and refugees for free in Kaduna State .
The Founder of the association, Hajiya Umma Sani, made the disclosure during the closing ceremony of a skills acquisition training exercise organised by the organisation for women.
She explained that the houses located at Rigachikun were 90 per cent completed and would be given to deserving widows in order to give them hope and stability.
Sani said: “We initially targeted one hundred women for the skills acquisition training but right now, we have over 500 women that had benefited from the training.
” They were trained on different skills ranging from cosmetology , catering, art and crafts, shoes and bag making, among others; they will also be given starter kits.”
She urged women to support and love each other while remaining humble and respectful to their husbands.
In her address, the Director-General, Maryam Babangida National Centre for Women Development, Asabe Vilita, commended the society’s effort to reduce poverty through empowerment.
She said that the government alone cannot do it without the support of well-to-do individuals, adding that skills acquisition training was the best gift to give women.
Vilita said, “Women are the drivers of the economy. Therefore, you should take the skills you learnt seriously so as to be self-reliant and support your families.
” I call on well-to-do Nigerians to emulate Umma Sani by empowering women and the less-privileged; the centre is ready to partner with such individuals,”
Meanwhile, some of the beneficiaries have expressed appreciation for the training exercise, saying that they would utilise what they have learnt.
A widow, Zainab Muhammad, who learnt catering, said she would start up a ‘small chop’ business and support her children with the proceeds.
Another beneficiary, Blessing Charles, who learnt cosmetology, said she can now produce petroleum jelly,air freshener and disinfectant, adding that she would cascade the the knowledge she had acquired..(NAN)
