Rural Women Acquire Skill Training

Monday, 24 December 2012 11:38

Written by ND Staff

The National Women’s Commission of Liberia (NAWOCOL) last week ended three-day skills in Margibi County training of 30 rural women with emphasis in financial management to improve their livelihood in small business ventures to be self-employed.

It also sought to improve the livelihood of women involved in small businesses and create self employment opportunity to rural women and girls. Participants benefiting from the workshop will be linked to brac (a macro-finance institution) for loan so as to enable them improve their businesses

The program which targets women between 18 and 48 years of age is looking for women who have small businesses and are finding it difficult to properly manage and improve their business they used to eke out a lining for their families.

The workshop was supported under the Liberia Community Development and Governance Program (LCDGP) with funding from ICCO-Kert in Actie regional office based in Mali.

The small business development workshop was facilitated by Ms. Marpu spear, Executive Director, WONGOSOL, Ms. Delphine M. Joekai, Program Coordinator including other NAWOCOL Staff.

The beneficiaries were drawn from four communities (Gbandi town, Bong-Mines Road, New Kakata and Bassa community). The workshop sought to sharpen the business skills of rural women and increase access to finances in support of their businesses through savings..

NAWOCOL is a nonprofit making, nongovernmental and an umbrella organization which supervised and managed a number of programs for local based women organizations in Liberia. It was established in 1991 to assist traumatized women and girls who were victims of the civil crisis that began on the eve of Christmas 1989. Over the years, NAWOCOL has transitioned from providing emergency assistance to war weary victims, to the empowering of women and women’s groups.