Agency Backs Samira Buhari Mentorship Drive

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking successful Persons (NAPTIP) has pledged to enactment with the Daurama Foundation to tackle the vulnerabilities faced by women and girls, peculiarly those that permission them astatine hazard of exploitation and trafficking.

The pledge was made astatine the virtual graduation of 39 young women from the Samira Buhari Mentorship Programme (SBMP), a 12-week capacity-building inaugural focused connected leadership, vocation development, and integer literacy.

The lawsuit was themed “Empowering Africa’s Next Generation of Women Leaders”

The founders of the Daurama Foundation, Dr Samira Buhari and Angela Agbayekhai, NAPTIP’s manager of counselling and rehabilitation, who represented the agency’s director-general, spoke.

Agbayekhai praised the programme’s efforts to equip young women with skills and opportunities, saying it aligned with nationalist strategies to support women and girls.

“Across our communities, girls and women look vulnerabilities that tin echo crossed generations. What SBMP is doing, taking young women disconnected the margins and empowering them, is timely and essential. NAPTIP stands acceptable to spouse truthful this momentum translates into safer, stronger futures,” she said.

The mentorship programme provided grooming successful leadership, entrepreneurship, nationalist speaking, concern development, and integer tools.

Participants besides engaged successful mock interviews, one-on-one coaching, and networking sessions designed to hole them for nonrecreational and entrepreneurial pursuits.

Dr Buhari noted that the inaugural aimed to equip participants with the assurance and skills to instrumentality connected enactment roles successful their communities and beyond.

“This is acold much than a ceremony; it is simply a solemnisation of courageousness and possibility. Mentorship should unfastened doors, nurture confidence, and ignite a occurrence that lasts good beyond the classroom.

“When we put successful women, we alteration communities, economies, and nations. Women’s voices beryllium astatine the table, astatine the helm, and astatine the bosom of progress,” she said.

According to the Daurama Foundation, the SBMP volition proceed to service arsenic a level for gathering a web of women leaders and promoting skills improvement arsenic portion of broader efforts to code sex inequality and economical marginalisation.

The ceremonial besides recognised top-performing participants with currency prizes and integer devices to enactment their continued learning and entrepreneurial efforts.

Mercy Ajeh, a mentor who facilitated sessions connected integer productivity, commended the participants for their dedication.

“These young women were anxious to larn and often went beyond people activities; sharing calendars, drafting documents, and adjacent taking minutes. The operation pushed them to conscionable precocious standards, and they roseate to the challenge,” she said.

One of the graduates, Fatima Shema, reflected connected however the mentorship acquisition had impacted her vocation path.

“SBMP gave maine assurance and direction. The time aft our mock interviews, I passed a existent interrogation and got the job. I’ve recovered my voice, and I’m gathering a originative endeavor that creates opportunities for different women,” she said.

The ceremonial besides acknowledged the contributions of spouse organisations specified arsenic NAPTIP, the Dorothy Njemanze Foundation, and the FCTA Women Affairs Secretariat, arsenic good arsenic the volunteers and unit who supported the programme’s delivery.