Breaking - U.S Embassy Initiates Women Empowerment Program

The United States Embassy for Nigeria took to their verified Facebook page to announce their new Women Empowerment Scheme which is aimed at providing aid and support to women who have been directly affected by insurgency and terrorist attacks in Nigeria.

They wrote:

The United States through USAID Office of Transition Initiatives is supporting training for women, mostly widowed or otherwise made vulnerable by the Boko Haram insurgency, to produce protective face masks to help protect the population from the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria’s conflict-affected Northeast.

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The training was implemented through USAID’s Nigeria Lake Chad Basin (NLCB) program, and will also include training in production of Ankara shoes and bags, as well as food processing.

 

AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK