Wife of the Governor of Anambra State, Mrs Nonye Soludo, yesterday, joined other South-East governors’ wives to receive the Wife of the President, Senator Oluremi Tinubu to the maiden inauguration of the Renewed Hope Initiative Women Agricultural Support Programme.
The event, which took place at the Government House, Owerri, is one of the national programme’s human capital development models, which empowers women who are into agriculture.
At the event, twenty female farmers, each from the five South-East States, received the sum of five hundred thousand naira to aid their agro businesses.
Mrs Soludo received a cheque for ten million naira from the President’s Wife on behalf of the twenty female farmers from Anambra State who also made the trip.
Speaking at the ceremony, Senator Tinubu, said that the Renewed Hope Initiative model is driven by commitment to empower the human capital strength of the country and open up lasting economic opportunities for women, people with disabilities and the indigent.
The President’s Wife, who is the National Chairman of Renewed Hope Initiative, also urged the beneficiaries to use the grant judiciously for their agro businesses.
In her welcome address, the Imo State co-ordinator of Renewed Hope Initiative and wife of the governor of Imo State, Barrister Chioma Uzodimma, said that empowering women and communities has positive effect, while the drive to achieve food security has been strengthened.
On his part, the Director General and Chief Executive Officer of National Agricultural Land Development Authority, NALDA, Chief Paul Ikonne, explained that the authority is committed to partnering the President’s Wife to get more women into agriculture.
He said that National Agricultural Land Development Authority has already identified two million women to be empowered in crop production, fishery and poultry, with the aim of achieving national food sufficiency.
Wife of the Vice President, Hajia Nana Shettima, wives of members of the Federal Executive Council and service chiefs, Governors’ Wives from Enugu, Ebony and Abia, were all at the event.
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