FOMWAN, Media Trust empowers 55 widows
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Empowerment
Katarko (Yobe), Oct. 16, 2016 (NAN) The Federation of Muslim Women Association of Nigeria (FOMWAN), Yobe, on Sunday distributed economic empowerment materials to 55 widows who lost their husbands to insurgency in Gujba Local Government Area of the state.
Hajiya Halimatu Amshi, the Chairperson of the association, distributed sewing machines, beans, ground nuts, flour, goats and sheep, among other relief materials, to the beneficiaries in Katarko village.
She said the association, in collaboration with Media Trust, assisted the widows to engage in economic activities for self reliance.
“The widows were left with children to take care of, so the partnership between the association and Media Trust was to provide them with a dignified means of livelihood to keep them away from street begging.
`We conducted a NEEDS assessment to provide the assistance in areas of choice by the beneficiaries for sustenance and continuity in their chosen trades,” she said.
Amshi charged the beneficiaries from Buni Yadi, Katarko, Gujba, Buni Gari, Ngurbuwa, Wagir and other villages to be committed to their trades for improved life style.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 21 widows collected a bag of ground nut each for production of ground nut oil, 12 others benefitted with a sewing machine each, while another received a knitting machine.
Seven widows were provided with N20,000 cash each for petty trading, two others also received N20,000 each for food business in their villages.
NAN also reports that 12 women were provided with animals for fattening, beans for moi-moi and bean cake making and ‘dawa-dawa’ food seasoning.
Meanwhile, the association says it has constructed two hand pump boreholes in Likdir and Rijiyan Gamji villages, and rehabilitated three boreholes in Buni Yadi with support from Media Trust.
The FOMWAN chairperson said this has eased the problem of water scarcity as the displaced persons returned to the liberated communities. (NAN)
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Edited by Muhammad Suleiman Tola