Grassroots Women Empowered At Leadership, Business Training

Over 100 grassroots women, mostly subsistence farmers and petty traders, participated successful a one-day enactment and concern skills grooming organised by the ENS Innovation Hub Ltd and the White Gold Initiative, successful collaboration with the African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative (AWEC).

Under the taxable “Leading Self to Lead Others,” the training, which was held successful Buzunkure, a agrarian assemblage wrong the Kuje Area Council of the FCT, was designed to equip women with the applicable tools needed to physique confidence, fortify wealth absorption skills, and turn tiny businesses successful ways that amended their families and communities.

Speaking astatine the opening, the facilitator and co-founder of the ENS Innovation Hub Ltd, Shirley Igbinedion, emphasised that enactment begins with self.

“Before we tin pb others – whether our families, businesses, oregon communities – we indispensable archetypal larn however to pb ourselves. That means gathering confidence, mounting tiny goals, and being disciplined with our resources,” she said.

The programme featured a premix of storytelling, radical discussions, and relation plays that reflected the women’s regular realities. Sessions focused connected wealth management, entrepreneurship, and radical skills. Through interactive exercises, participants learned the “three pots” method of managing wealth – separating income into business, family, and savings – and shared ideas for adding worth to their tiny businesses, specified arsenic packaging nutrient otherwise oregon selling complementary goods together.

At the adjacent of the training, each subordinate committed to 1 enactment she would instrumentality successful the coming period to amended her workplace oregon trade. Participants expressed gratitude for the opportunity. “I ne'er thought astir separating my wealth before. Now I cognize I indispensable prevention for the future, not conscionable walk everything,” said Hauwa, a petty trader from the community. Another participant, Grace, a section farmer, added: “The stories shared contiguous showed maine that I tin commencement tiny and inactive turn my business.”

The programme demonstrates the powerfulness of targeted, applicable grooming to fortify women’s capableness to prolong their livelihoods and animate alteration wrong their families and communities.