Nigeria: Empower Women, Say Goodbye to Poverty

The programme organised by Development Support Institute (DSI) in partnership with Esso/Exxon-Mobil at the Banquet Hall, Wellington Hotel, Warri, Delta State, was intended to equip the women in the rural area with basic skills so that they would be empowered to play major roles in the economic arena and contribute more meaningfully in the finance of their immediate family. (…) Expressing her gratitude to Esso/Exxon Mobil for partnering with DSI in the Niger/Delta programme, Odiadi said that the skills set down for the two-week programme were milliner- hat and bead making; tie and dye cloth making – local fabric (adire); fish farming – small scale ponds; snail and grass cutter farming; cassava processing and soap making. In addition to all these, she said there would be talk on basic entrepreneurial skills as well as reproductive health matters for the participants. Image source: cas.umkc.edu. > Continue.

News selected by Covalence | Country: Nigeria | Company: ExxonMobil | Source: This Day (Lagos)