By Ibrahim Goronyo, Sokoto
State Ministry For Women and Children and Children Affairs has empowered 40 Women with about 3 billion Naira.
The state Commissioner of the Ministry Hajiya Hadiza Ahmad Shagari made the disclosure during the Ministerial Press briefing of governor Ahmad Aliyu’s one year in office.
The Commissioner who was represented by the Permanent Secretary Alhaji Hayatu Alhaji said the Ministry empowered 40 women on agriculture with N500,000 each addition to solar pumping machines for dry season farming.
Another recorded achievement as she has enumerated is the empowerment of 200 adolescent girls on skill acquisition and second chance education in collaboration with NEEM Foundation and similarly re-admitted 1500 out of school children with provision of complete uniforms, Sneakers, school bags, books and writing materials which was in collaboration with UNICEF.
Furthermore, the Ministry trained 23 Local Government Areas Women Coordinators on GBV issues.
As a core mandate of the Ministry, food items and clothing were distributed during the Holy month of Ramadan to vulnerable women and children including those in correctional centres.
“As part of the governor’s 9 points agenda,those are some of the achievements recorded in infrastructures, socioeconomic and human development programs”, averred Hadiza Ahmad Shagari.
