A Non-Governmental Organization, Save Young Girls Motherhood Foundation, has taken commercial sex workers at Club Road, Awka, through confectionery training.
According to the NGO, the aim of the training was to teach the girls a positive alternative to earning a living , and strategically take their minds away from their odd job.
The NGO has been championing a novel campaign since September of 2021, to rescue young girls, who are into commercial sex business, with major target of those operating in Anambra State.
At Club Road, Awka, formerly known as Abakiliki Street, the girls were taught how to bake cake and meat pie.
However, one thing that stood out from the training was the keen interest with which all the girls followed through the whole process, suspending their presumably busy schedules.
The NGO says girls who, have shown genuine willingness to leave their current job would be assisted with further training of their choice and helped to start up.
The founder, Reverend Sister Dorothy Okoli, in an interview, said that the purpose of the training was to equip the girls with basic knowledge of self-reliance, and help them begin a new phase of life by being more productive.
She maintained that the organization needs a rehabilitation home where the repentant girls could be kept to learn vocational training, after which they would be empowered, to help them become financially independent, and solicited support from the government, donor agencies and concerned individuals.
Other members of the NGO, Mrs. Uche Egbusi and Lady Obiamaka Akabueze, lamented the living condition of the girls, and stated that the training was crucial to help them change the current chapter of their lives.
Some of the girls, who participated in the training, said that it was the first time to have taken part in such training, and noted that the training would help them start up something different from their current jobs.
Reverend Sister Okoli can be reached via: 08032264250 or girlsmotherhoodfoundation@gmail.com
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