By Musa Ubandawaki (Sokoto State Correspondent)
European Union, UN Spotlight Initiative in collaboration with Sokoto state ministry for women Affairs and Children Affairs have commenced training of over 200 Women victims of VVF and Gender-based Violence (GBV), on Skills Acquisition Training to boost their morales.
The five days of training for Women and Adolescent girls on livelihood and skills were co-sponsored by EU, UN Spotlight Initiative with the Sokoto State Ministry for Women and Children Affairs as well as Budget and economic development.
Speaking, the State Commissioner of Women Affairs, Hajiya Kulu Sifawai, said the aim is to prevent Women and Girls against all forms of violence and grant disbursement holding at Sokoto Women Development Centre
Sifawa maintains that the participants were receiving training on tailoring, knitting and Animal rearing, sewing, and knitting among other skills.
She stated that after their training, each participant would receive either a Tailoring machine, Grinding machine, or three goats in addition to a token amount, as start up capital.
The commissioner explained that Women who were victims of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and VVF diseases were targeted for the training program would also receive support and empowerment packages to start a new life.
She noted that the training was aimed at boosting the morales of women, especially who were victims of VVF disease as a result of prolonged labor and those whose right was gender-based violated.
According to her, the ministry also engaged in counseling, guidance, and other women enhancement program to improve their psychology for the trauma they went through during VVF surgery.
Contributing, the Permanent Secretary state ministry for women Affairs and child development, Hajiya Ashatu Dantsoho said the training program includes sexual reproductive health, rights of women and adolescent girls, child spacing, and second-chance education program for young and Elderly women.
Dantsoho stated that the training also allows the trainees to be trained on the trades of their own, according to her includes the teaching of various trades skills.
She further stated that the two ministries of Women Affairs and that of budget and Economic planning were collaborating with EU, UN Spotlight, and other donor agencies in the five years program aimed at ending all forms of violence against women in Sokoto state. NNL.
