AS part of efforts to empower women in the Tamale metropolis with the acquisition of employable skills, a local non-governmental organisation (NGO), Partnership Action for Development (PAD), has offered training to some women groups in the making of batik, tie-dye.
The beneficiaries were mainly former head porters (Kayayei) who had returned home after a long sourjoun down south where they engaged in menial jobs for survival.
Known as the Zisung women’s group, the beneficiaries are being trained in two batches of 15 each.
The training programme is being funded by the African Women Development Fund.
The chief executive officer of PAD, Mr Issah Iddrisu, explained that the exercise was aimed at equipping the participants with employable skills in order that they were not encouraged to go back to their former vocation.
He said since the establishment of the organisation, it had supported some women’s groups in micro financing and also initiated some health, agriculture and environmental programmes in its operational areas of Yendi, Gushegu, Karaga and peri-urban Tamale.
Mr Iddrisu, however observed that it was not enough to provide skills to unemployed people, and therefore, appealed to financial institutions to compliment the efforts of the NGO by supporting the beneficiaries with some credit facilities to enable them to establish their own businesses.
He also entreated development partners and parliamentarians from the north to do more in attracting investors to the area to accelerate the development of the people.
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