Women empowerment!
Project: LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND!
As a nation, Nigeria is undergoing an economic reform. To achieve a great and lasting reform, a productive, competent and flexible work force is an unconditional necessity. It is evident that the demand for skilled workers is already on the rising side, and will become indeed concentrated as the industrial sector becomes a main provider of employment opportunities in the country; yet the vocational and educational sub- sector is on the low side in the response to the changing labor market requirements because of its present supply- driven orientation. As part of its core values, the Mirian Pat Foundation believes and advocates that the people living with disability, and as well as the people living with leprosy must not be left out in the quest for this economic reform.
It is in view of this that the Mirian Pat Foundation organized a skill acquisition training program, in line with the sustainable development goal 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth) based on unemployment reduction initiatives, for the women living with and without leprosy in the Angwa Kutare- Dakwa community of Dei- Dei, Abuja. This training was aimed at making the women believe that despite being affected with leprosy, they could still be useful to themselves, their immediate community and the society at large, and to make them confident in putting into positive use the skills thought them, which in turn would help them raise money for their livelihood, instead of consenting to begging for alms on the streets. The foundation also distributed food materials to the children, to help ease up the COVID- 19 effect on the women and their children. The training would be a continuous program for the women, as the foundation aspires to also empower the women to be self- reliant.
The Mirian Pat Foundation has been well known for her humanitarian work in the past, thus embarking on different outreaches trying to touch the people who are in different needs and touching lives in different ways to make our society a better place to live.
The outreach was carried out in line with, and to achieve the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which the foundation works with: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger; Goal 4 Quality Education, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 17 Partnership for the Goal. The training ended successfully with a promising response from the women and a good prospect and call to be taught more other skills.
Your support on these women is highly needed, as together we can make them better!
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