Borno sends women on fashion designing instructors course in Abuja
A group of women under the sponsorship of Borno State Government are currently undergoing three months of intensive training on various aspects of sewing and fashion designing at Vodi Tailoring Institute, a private firm in Abuja.
The women numbering 20 were picked from 20 out of the 27 local government areas of Borno State to undergo a training that would make them not only good tailors but also instructors expected to come to Maiduguri and train about 500 women.
A statement yesterday from the governor’s spokesman, Isa Umar Gusau, said Kashim Shettima said during his visit to the training institute in Abuja on Saturday, that the tailoring was one of the many ways his administration was trying to empower women through vocational skills in addition to sponsoring others in formal schools.
The statement said the governor promised that the ladies would be equipped with tools after their training.
Gusau quoted Shettima as saying, “Any society that is serious about fighting poverty must empower its female population because women and children constitute the larger part of the population in most societies. When women are empowered, they support their children... We have sent women for medical degrees abroad, we are sponsoring others in other forms of education and we are also sponsoring others in vocational skills. These women here have been provided with all their needs, tuition has been paid, their allowances have been approved while they are being provided with three square meals to make it conducive for them to learn practical skills and come to Borno and teach at least 500 other women who will be sewing uniforms for our students.”