The Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency(SWIDA-Ghana), has provided training in soap making for 50 adolescent girls from communities in the Karaga district.
These communities are targets under the Sustainable Livelihoods and Nutrition Reduction project.
The overall objective of the project is to provide sustainable livelihoods support to vulnerable persons, mostly women and girls in the communities and has within the project lifespan been able to provide economic improvement to a number of households.
The 50 adolescent girls underwent training on how to produce liquid soap, bar soap, bathing soap (alata samina), perfume scented detergents and round soap, known as Azuma blow or Tolon banku.
The training activity which is expected to be carried out every quarter within the project life span has a specific objective to to economically empower women to enhance their nutrition levels and ensure they have alternative sources of livelihood.
After the training, all trainees were provided startup kits to support them to begin production.
The girls expressed their appreciation to SWIDA-Ghana for the support provided to them, as most of them assured of making good use of the skills acquired to advance the development of their households and the younger ones in their communities.
The Sustainable Livelihoods and Nutrition Reduction Project is being implemented in communities in the Karaga District and funded by the World Food Programme.
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