Wife of the Governor of Anambra State and founder of the charity organization, Caring Family Enhancement Initiative, CAFÉ, Chief Mrs Ebelechukwu Obiano, has praised the federal government, its initiative to train and empower forty-five indigent Anambra women with cash and equipment to embark on various vocations.
The federal government is carrying out the training through the National Centre for Women Development, NCWD.
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.
The beneficiaries had undergone a five-day training on Catering, Fashion and Design
In her address, Chief Mrs Obiano said that the federal government’s programme coincides with the foundational road maps of her NGO, CAFE, and advised the beneficiaries to break entrepreneurial grounds with the equipment and capital givenbto them.
The governor’s wife represented by the CAFE Project Manager and Deputy Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Emeka Ozumba, commended the Director General of NCWD for bringing the programme to Anambra State, pointing out that focusing 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 Mrs Obiano for setting a socio-economic standard through her charity organization which has helped further the objectives of the NCWD.
Contributing, the Anambra State Commissioner for Social Welfare, Children and Women Affairs, Lady Ndidi Mezue, enjoined beneficiaries to see the opportunity as a rare privilege to secure a better future for themselves and their immediate society.
Some beneficiaries who spoke on the occasion thanked the governor’s wife for bringing the initiative to Anambra State, aimed at improving their well-being. .
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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