CEO of Women’s Haven Africa (right) holding a liquid soap whiles Mrs. Apraku Nyarko looks on
PLAN INTERNATIONAL GHANA (PIG) has, in partnership with Women’s Haven Africa (WHA), provided a six-month training workshop on business development, financial management, and vocational skills to 50 women in the Ashanti Region to enable them create their own jobs.
The beneficiaries aged between 18 and 35, comprised those whose businesses had been adversely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, especially during the lockdown period.
According to Ms. Adwoa Fosua Owusu Ofori, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Women’s Haven Africa (WHA), the women were selected after carrying out an assessment by juries.
The training workshop took place at Women’s Haven Africa, in Kumasi, and covered the manufacture of sanitizers, wigs, liquid soap and detergent.
Start-up packs were given to the trainees to help them rekindle their businesses.
The CEO said that her foundation was established to fill the gender-gap, and seek to aid women to increase their participation in entrepreneurship, technology and leadership.
“A lot of them in Kumasi were living from hand-to-mouth, without any sustainable businesses, and were hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, with most of them losing their businesses,” she said.
Ms. Owusu Ofori pledged their readiness to continue supporting and empowering women through diverse ways, so as to push them through the leadership ladder.
On her part, Mrs. Esther AprakuNyarko, Metro Director of Social Welfare and Community Development, observed that most women in businesses or petty-trading lacked resilient businesses skills to survive economic hardships.
She urged the beneficiaries to put into practice, the training and skills they acquired in order to excel, earn incomes to sustain their families, and become self-sufficient.
FROM David Afum, Kumasi