Wife of the Governor of Anambra State and founder of the charity organization, Caring Family Enhancement Initiative, CAFÉ, Dr Ebelechukwu Obiano has described as commendable, the gesture by the federal government, through the National Centre for Women Development, NCWD, to train and empower forty-five indigent Anambra women with cash and equipment to start different vocations.
The forty-five women were randomly selected by the federal government under the COVID-19 Empowerment Programme of the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs, the ministry under which the NCWD operates.
Correspondent Daniel Ezeigwe reports that the beneficiaries had undergone a five-day training on catering, fashion and design.
In her address, Dr Obiano said that the federal government’s programme coincides with the foundational roadmaps of her NGO, CAFE, insisting that she is counting on the beneficiaries to break entrepreneurial grounds with the equipment and capital that they had been given.
The governor’s wife who was represented by the CAFE Project Manager and Deputy Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Anambra State, Mr Emeka Ozumba, commended the Director General of NCWD for bringing the programme to Anambra State, stating that its focus on indigent women was the first step to success.
On her part, the Director General of the National Centre for Women Development, Dr Asabe Bashir, represented by a Deputy Director in the parastatal and team leader for Anambra State, Mr Azubike Ogu, said the National Centre for Women Development, as Nigeria’s only apex institution that looks into issues concerning women, has worked with different national and international organizations to train women in vocational skills, information and communication technology, as well as other skill-based areas to help them achieve self-reliance and check poverty growth.
Dr Bashir also commended Dr Obiano for setting a socio-economic standard through her charity organization, noting that it has helped further the objectives of the NCWD.
On her part, the Anambra State Commissioner for Social Welfare, Children and Women Affairs Lady Ndidi Mezue, charged the women to see the opportunity as a rare privilege to secure a better future for themselves and their immediate society.
Some beneficiaries, including Calista Nwachukwu, Chinyere Obalim from Oyi Local Government Area and Chinasa Obiora from Awka South, commended the governor’s wife for bringing the initiative to Anambra State, promising that they would use the benefits to make a difference.
Aside the forty-five beneficiaries, eighty-four other women were also given start-up capital to go into their choice vocations.
The first batch of the COVID-19 Empowerment Programme of the National Centre for Women Development is implemented across eighteen states in Nigeria and targets hundred million persons.
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