Georgetown: Yet another grouping of unemployed women who are wives, mothers, single parents, teenage girls and women who are victims and survivors of domestic violence were provided with skills training in areas that empowered them to save valuable dollars on one hand and to earn extra dollars to subsidies their families on the other hand.
The Central committee of the Women’s Progressive Organisation (WPO) congratulated all the students on their achievements and wishes them many more successes in the future.
The strategy behind the training programme was in preparation of the upcoming Christmas holidays. The skills learnt will allow beneficiaries of the training programme to sell their individual creation to earn monies for themselves and families. Monies that will go a far way to reduce poverty in their families.
At the end of the training programme, an exhibition was organized to show case the creation of the beneficiaries. This exhibition was held recently at theCheddieJagan Research Centre (Red House) High Street,
The Conference Room at the Centre was transformed into a kaleidoscope of activities that corresponded with the bright faces and smiles of the women who proudly displayed their products for viewing by guests and visitors.
The feelings of achievement among students were reflected in their demands for such training programmes to be taken around the country so that women who are WPO members can benefit from the skills taught to them. Several of the students indicated that they will be pursuing courses to enhance what they already learnt at other Institutions such as the Board of Industrial Training and the Guyana Women’s Leadership Institute.
Courses taught were: Designers Curtains, Nail Artistry, Floral Arrangements, Handicraft (Decorative Dolls, clothes pin arrangements, Fabric Painting) and Cake decoration. Facilitators were: Padmini Singh, Nandani Singh and Sharon Singh. Each student will be presented with a Certificates of Participation.
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