The Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA-Ghana), has registered young women to be trained in various skills development, as a means of empowerment, aimed at inculcating in them the need to be entrepreneurial and independent.
The young women, from across the northern region of Ghana, numbering thirty in total, are expected to receive training in various skills in Cosmology, Pastry making and Smock weaving.
Engaging the women during the registration exercise at the conference hall of SWIDA-Ghana, Executive Director, Hajia Alima Sagito-Saeed spoke about the essence of the training especially for the young women.
She said when the young woman is provided such skill, it empowers her to be on her own and not depend on a man for survival, which reduces to the barest minimum, the risks of domestic abuse.
The training exercise, which is through a fund grant from Plan International Ghana, under the Women’s Voice and Leadership Programme in Ghana, is expected to take place within a period of six months, by which time the young women would have had all the skills they need to establish themselves for entrepreneurship.
Hajia Alima encouraged the young women to consider the training serious business, as if their future depends on it, because it in fact does, since it is aimed at providing them skills that will help them become independent.
Some of the young women expressed gratitude for the opportunity provided by SWIDA-Ghana and assured the organization that they will show all the seriousness of cooperation required during the exercise, since the primary aim is to help them.
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