Barely two weeks after empowering over two thousand Owerri Zone youths with life changing skills, Hon Ezenwa Onyewuchi has again flagged off similar scheme for four hundred women of Owerri Zone.
The two weeks intensive skills acquisition training which would hold at the All Saints Anglican Church Hall, Egbu would be rounded up with the presentation of full starter kits worth more than two hundred thousand to every trainee.
Flagging off the program on Friday in his constituency office at Ugwu Orji, Owerri, Hon Onyewuchi said he attaches great importance to empowerment of women because they are the engine of families adding that once a woman is economically empowered her family and society at large would be better off.
The lawmaker said his office had shown remarkable consistency and commitment to women and youth development stressing that this has been so because the two are about the most critical segments of the society.
Hon Onyewuchi listed his empowerment drive to include his November 2016 massive empowerment at All Saints Anglican Church, Egbu, the April 2017 empowerment of four hundred women of Owerri Federal Constituency as well as these latest skills training and empowerment with full starter kits
He urged the women to take the training seriously so as to learn the skills that can change their individual and family lives for better even as he doled out cash of one million naira for transportation to and from the training centre for the two weeks.
Speaking also the state cordinator of the National Directorate of Employment NDE, which is partnering the lawmaker on the program Mrs Ngozi Iheanacho lauded the superlative harmonious working relationship between both parties noting that the lawmaker has really demonstrated what people oriented representation should look like.
She reiterated the need for the trainees to take the training seriously because it would lead to skills acquisition which in turn would bring financial and economic freedom which is critical for women.
On her part, the Mrs Akwaugo Nsofor of Ephehatha Academy which is handling the training sounded it loud and clear that the training would intensive pointing out that her academy would take the exercise seriously hence the introduction of attendance register for the trainees.
She posited that the register would help identify those who met the requirements for empowerment with starter kits noting that it would be bad to empower anyone who did not take the training serious because it would be tantamount to waste of resources.
Mrs Nsofor listed the areas of training to include industrial cooking, pastry, decorations, cake making, tailoring and soft furnishing.
