30/09/2022
NASARAWA FIRST LADY EMPOWERS 300 WOMEN
Nasarawa State First Lady, Hajiya Salifat Abdullahi Sule, has trained 300 vulnerable women in different skills across the three senatorial districts of the state.
Silifat Sule, through her foundation, Salifat Abdullahi-Sule Hope Foundation, conducted training for the women, in partnership with National Directorate of Employment (NDE) and Industrial Training Found (ITF).
She said the gesture was part of her contributions to empowering women for them to contribute meaningfully to their respective families.
Silifat said, “If a woman is in business or trade, she will add value to her family, thereby helping her husband in addressing the needs of the family.
“I feel concerned whenever I discover that a woman does not have job, skill or a business to support her family.
“That is why since God has lifted us, I have rolled out so many empowerment programmes to assist our women.
“My foundation is doing nothing else than empowering vulnerable women and children, to make their lives worthwhile,” she said.
The First Lady donated N20,000 each to the women, all amounting to N6 million, to enable them start their businesses and support their families.
On his part, Nasarawa State Coordinator of NDE, Mr Chris Bamdisa, represented by Mr Shuaibu Gimba, commended Hajiya Silifat Sule for the initiative and continued support to women.
Bamdisa said NDE, in collaboration with the governor’s wife, had trained the 300 women on different skills.
He added that they were trained on how to utilise the money given to them to contribute to the growth of their families, as “getting money is not the problem, but how to utilise it.”
Also speaking, Head of Training of ITF, Lafia office, Nanpoe Bala, who presented paper on catering, advised women to learn about cooking and cleanliness in order to sustain their marriages.
“If a woman is clean, cooks good food and respects her husband, it will be difficult for him to ignore her and be eating outside,”