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By Akanji Alowolodu, Bauchi
Twenty indigent women in Dambam LGA of Bauchi state have been trained on pasta making in order to make them self sufficient and support their families.
The training was conducted by a Bauchi based Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) Attah Sisters Helping Hand Foundation (ASHH Foundation) with support from Women for Women International as part of the efforts to reduce poverty among rural women.
While supervising the beneficiaries at the of the training, Executive Director of ASHH Foundation, Ms. Comfort Ene Attah said that the objective of the empowerment initiative was to equip the beneficiaries with life saving skills in order to enhance their economic status in their respective communities.
Comfort Attah also implored the beneficiaries to put to use the training they have acquired and also cascade the skills to other vulnerable members of the community to make it a chain.
She informed the beneficiaries that the pasta making training will soon be followed by distribution of the machines in a grand ceremony to enable them commence production and making money to support their respective families.
Comfort Attah also said that the initiative is just one out of the other skills acquisition programs being implemented in the State by ASHH Foundation, with funding from Women for Women International.
She then thanked the leaders of the community and the beneficiaries for their support and the enthusiasm demonstrated during the training saying that it was really interesting and fascinating the way they grasped the lessons.
The ASHH Foundation ED stressed that, “the brand of pasta you were trained on is different from the regular pasta you see around. This brand of pasta comes with it’s spicing that will be ready-to-eat after short time cooking. It is different, it is innovative and testy too”.
The ED also expressed her hope that the skills acquired by the women will pave the way for them to contribute meaningfully on the home front and the community at large.
In a short remark , a community leader, Mallam Sadisu Shehu Dambam thanked ASHH Foundation and Women for Women International for selecting the community to benefit from the skills acquisition program.
Sadisu Shehu said that their doors are always opened for any developmental project that would reduce the poverty level of the community.
One of the beneficiary, Tasalla Adamu also expressed her appreciation to the collaborating NGOs for the training which she described as “life changing” .
She said that she is going to be training others and plough back some of the profit back into the business so that it may grow.
