Source: Daily Trust
About a hundred women in Kano State would benefit from the skills acquisition training programme of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), the State Coordinator, Alhaji Aliyu Umar Yar'adua said yesterday in Kano at the take off of a four-week special training for women in the state.

Alhaji Yar'adua said that the training was a collaborative effort between the NDE and "I care women and youth initiative" a non-governmental organization to train and empower women in various skills such as confectionaries, beads-making, cosmetology, knitting and interior-Decoration.

He highlighted the importance of empowering women, youths and the less privileged.

"The NDE in Kano State has made a remarkable achievement in empowering women, youths and people with special needs in the state. A total of 950 women and the less privileged have been trained in various trades and have been gainfully resettled to the tune of N5, 325,000 under the NDE Resettlement Scheme," he said.

The National Coordinator, "I care women initiative" Malam Abdulmuminu Ya'u Musa said that the "I care Women Initiative" is the brain-child of the wife of the Vice President of Nigeria, Hajiya Amina Namadi Sambo which she starteds in 2007 when she was the first lady of Kaduna State.

It involves training and imparting skills to women and youths.

He called on the beneficiaries of the training to set up businesses so as to complement the efforts of government in jobs and wealth creation for the sustainability of self reliance and self actualization.

In his goodwill message, the State Executive Secretary, Guidance and Counselling, Alhaji Habu Ibrahim Fagge thanked the organizers of the training, saying that it is a welcome thought-out idea as it goes in line with the present administration's strategy towards empowering women, youths and the less privileged in the society.

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