Skills training for women and young girls
In recent times, the need to equip rural populations and low income people, especially women with skills in income generating trades have been identified as result-oriented and cost-effective poverty reduction strategies.
This is possibly because an increase in the economic status of any married woman has a multiplier effect on the lives of her family members. With her new income generating skill, she is ready to change the course of her family, supporting her spouse in putting food on the table, provide for her children’s basic education as well as ensure the healthy well being of her family.
The project is designed to equip young women with skills in high income generating trades, such as: hair dressing, bead making, hat making, events decoration, catering, etc. These days, the demand for fashion-related and events planning services increase on a daily basis. Thus, providers of such services are indispensable in the society and are high income earners, either as self-employed entrepreneurs or as employees of small businesses.
What is the problem?
In our society, most young women who are married are unemployed and do not have either income generating or entrepreneurial skills that could enable them earn income to support their spouses in running their families. They therefore end up as full time house wives, with little or nothing to contribute to their families. The resultant effects of this development are enormous ranging from inability of the woman to contribute in the decision making process in her family as well as depending on her husband for her every day need. She then becomes vulnerable to domestic violence, all sorts of abuse and neglect.
This situation is also worsened by the educational system, which does not fully provide entrepreneurial skills to students at all levels. Again, there are not enough employment opportunities in both public and private sectors to absorb the teeming young people graduating from the universities and other tertiary schools yearly.
We are well convinced that a little deviation from the much awaited white collar jobs by young people to establishing small scale enterprises is the needed paradigm shift for reviving the economy of the continent.
What do we do at the skills development center?
At our skills development center, we provide hands-on training on how to make beads, hats, dress hair, decorate and plan events as well as bake confectionaries. These training programmes are provided free-of-charge to selected women and girls.
Training session at the Women's Skill Development Center.
If the project is funded, we pay the participants monthly transport subsidies of about $50 (i.e. about 7,000 NGN) for the three months period. Also for a sponsored project, the participants are settled with Starter Packs according to the different trades and skills acquired at the end of the three months.
For example, a participant in the Hair Dressing Group would be settled with items like, a generating set, dryer, rollers, etc.
Call for partnership
Join us… become one of our partners or sponsors!
Are you are a philanthropist or a representative of an organization, company, government agency, etc? We need you to partner with us by sponsoring atleast one woman or girl for this project.
The cost of sponsoring one participant for any of these 3 months training programmes, including starter packs at the end of the training is estimated at about $350 or 50,000 NGN.
If you want to partner with us, please use our feed back form or email us at info@afrydef.org or afrydef@yahoo.com or call us on +234(0) 803 870 2075 or +234 (0) 703 349 6417.
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You can also choose to make a donation to enable us purchase more equipment for expansion or to purchase starter packs required to settle graduates of the scheme. Please, clearly specify, whichever one your donation is meant for.
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Thank you in advance for your kind support.
The AFRYDEF Team.
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