Kano govt flagsoff empowerment programme for 6,700 women

Kano state government has flagged-off empowerment programme for 6,700 women, just as it has pledged to launch a mega empowerment programme soon.

Launching the programme yesterday at the Coronation Hall in Kano, the state Governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje said the programme was aimed at empowering women to become self-reliant in the future.

Ganduje said, “No soceity can achieve development without empowering women. Kano state government intends to empower you to alleviate your sufferings. Some of you are widows who were left with orphans and you are shouldering their school fees, feeding and shelter among other burdens. So, you really need assistance from government.”

Governor Ganduje said that Kano state government had planned to launch mega women empowerment programme that would cater for more women.

He charged the beneficiaries to utilise the opportunity offered to them by paying attention to the training, saying government had set aside funds as take-off capital that would be given to them at the end of the programme.

Earlier, the State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Hajiya Yardada Maikano Bichi said a sum.of N101,881,100 was released for the empowerment programme.

Yardada said the beneficiaries were selected from the 4,804 wards of the 44 local government areas of the state.

The commissioner said despite the ecomic harship that was biting the nation’s economy, Ganduje-led administration was committed to women empowerment.

She said thousands of women and youth had benefitted from various empowerment programmes initiated by the state government.

She said, “The empowerment programme of 6,700 women has multiplier effects because it will affect many families.”

The training would commence today (Sunday) at various designated centers across the state metropolis.