Japan, in collaboration with the United Nations Women and Search for Common Ground, has built a ‘Women Empowerment Hub’ in Borno State to address the impact of Boko Haram crisis on women.
Speaking during the inauguration of the hub on Thursday, the Borno State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Zuwaira Gambo, said the centre would provide the women with essential equipment for learning vocational skills such as tailoring, knitting, soap making, shoe and bag making, to better their lives.
Gambo said, “It is in order to maximise the benefits of the women empowerment hub as a transformation and complementary tool for this government that the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development focuses more on a robust economic development of women, especially through partnering various bodies.”
Also speaking, the head of the Search in the North-East, Brian Weiner, said his organisation got involved in the building of the hub to bring succour to many people affected by the over a decade old Boko Haram crisis.All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.
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