A group photograph of the participants after the training
Association of People for Practical Life Education (APPLE), an anti-child trafficking non-governmental organisation and a livelihood trainer in Ghana, with support from Business Sector Advocacy Challenge (BUSAC) Fund recently trained 30 women from five communities in the Ga West Municipality in entrepreneurship to enable them to get well-informed about business practices in their communities.
The Executive Director of APPLE, Jack James Dawson, who is also an MTN Heroes of Change Season III award winner in Economic Empowerment & Education, disclosed that the training was to strengthen the knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) of women in the small-scale agro industry at the community level.
The target groups were mainly women who are farmers and leaders of households drawn from communities such as Niiman, Okushibiade and Manchi in the Ga West Municipality of the Greater Accra Region.
The participants included married women, single parents and the widowed. According to Mr Dawson, the women were chosen because his organisation believes that empowered women farmers can increase their income, develop a stable rural livelihood and contribute to ensuring food security in their communities and the country at large.
The training explored linkages with financial institutions that will facilitate communities revolving loan fund system and provide micro funding services for the farmers, producers and retailers of agro-products in micro and medium enterprises in the area of agriculture processing.
The training was co-funded by the BUSAC Fund, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) and European Union (EU) under the Rural Agro Micro Business Project.
BY Dzigbordi Fomenyah
dfomenyah@ymail.com