NGO Trains 50 Kano Women In Financial Literacy

Fifty women drawn from 8 section authorities areas of Kano State person benefitted from a two-day concern and fiscal literacy grooming organised by Bridge Connect Africa Initiative nether its Women Against Violence, Empowered Through Sustainability (WAVES) Project.

At the event, the task lead, Mr. Nathan Boko, who is successful complaint of method and donor engagement, explained that the inaugural is aimed astatine empowering women economically to unrecorded lives escaped from unit and abuse.

According to him, the existent grooming forms portion of the 2nd signifier of the WAVES Project, funded by the French Embassy done the Fund for Civil Society Organizations, noting that the archetypal phase, held betwixt precocious 2024 and aboriginal 2025.

“This constituent focuses connected gathering women’s capableness to negociate and turn their businesses.

“After equipping them with vocational and cultivation skills, we privation them to larn however to monetize those skills, pull much customers, summation profitability, and prolong their enterprises.”

He said beneficiaries see survivors of gender-based violence, women susceptible to abuse, those engaged successful agribusiness, and women surviving with disabilities, reflecting the project’s inclusive approach.

He highlighted that, truthful far, the WAVES Project has trained participants successful gender-based unit consciousness and climate-smart agriculture, with the concern and fiscal literacy module serving arsenic the 3rd large component.

Boko emphasised that the enactment of participants was done successful collaboration with spouse organisations moving intimately with women successful section communities who provided referrals of women already engaged successful small-scale businesses, arsenic good arsenic those recovering from the interaction of unit and discrimination.

He added that the overarching purpose of the WAVES Project is to fortify women’s resilience, boost their economical independence, and beforehand sustainable livelihoods crossed Kano State.

In her remarks, 1 of the participants, Salamat Musa, said, the grooming has improved her cognition connected however to marque and adhd worth to her business.