Economic growth: We won’t leave any woman behind – Gov Adeleke

• As springtime trains 500 women connected integrated farming

By Shina Abubakar, Osogbo

Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has disclosed that nary pistillate successful the authorities would beryllium near down successful his administration’s strive to guarantee inclusive economical growth.

This is arsenic the Springtime Development Foundation, an inaugural of Dr Deji Adeleke trained 500 women from the authorities connected integrated poultry location farming.

Speaking astatine the extremity of the grooming workout and organisation of N50,000 grants to the 500 participants, the governor, represented by the Commissioner for Women Affairs, Children and Social Welfare, Mrs Oyebola Fadeyi-Awolowo, helium said women are federation builders who indispensable not beryllium allowed to lag behind.

According to the governor, our women empowerment programme has been encompassing since this medication came connected committee and we volition not relent to guarantee that women go much aforesaid reliant.

“Before today, we person empowered women, particularly successful the agrarian areas, including farmers, traders, and artisans, astir of whom were fixed currency grants, heavy freezers, grinding machines.

“Our medication is of the presumption that erstwhile you empower women, the household would beryllium secured some socially and economically, hence, we won’t permission anyone behind. Today we, arsenic a authorities is supporting postgraduate from this grooming with N50,000 each”, helium added.

Earlier, the Chairman of Springtime Development Foundation, Dr Deji Adeleke, who was represented by his deputy, Banji Adesuyi, disclosed that the empowerement programme was packaged nether the Veronica Adeleke Women Empowerment targeted astatine making women economically independent.

“This women empowerment strategy is the archetypal of its benignant successful the authorities and participants were drawn from the 30 Local Government Councils and the Area office. In each we person 500 participants for this signifier aft which different women groups would beryllium fixed the opportunity. Our people is 1, 000 women and we volition decidedly scope the number.

“Some of the grooming the women went through, include, integrated compound farming successful vegetable, coco yam, snail breading and poultry farming”, helium added.

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