Save Our Needy Empowers Marginalized Girls and Women

Project SAVE (Skills Acquisition. Vocational training. Empowerment) ended on a high note as participants concluded free training on make-up artistry and gele (African headgear) tying. Makeup artistry and gele (African headgear) tying are very lucrative businesses in Nigeria today.

Make up artistry training session

Some of the participants practising the art of make up

Professional and skilled trainer, Abigail Zakari, at work

Some of the participants practising the art of make up

The 2-week intensive training program focused on empowering marginalized girls and women to become self-reliant. This has become a necessity given the present state of the Nigerian economy.

Trainer, Frank, teaches participants the art of gele tying

One of the participants tries her hands at gele tying

Although the program had schedule issues due to the scarcity of fuel and consequent hike in the price of public transportation, it went smoothly.

At the end of the training, the very enthusiastic participants were given certificates and business start-up tools to enable them start their own small businesses.

Marvella Odili (left), Founder/CEO, Save Our Needy presents a certificate to one of the participants

Selfie with some of the participants of the program

Save Our Needy Helps Marginalized Women Break The Cycle of Poverty

Participants receiving training on craftswork

In present day Nigeria, many women face a lot of economic challenges and this is even more evident because a lot of women are the breadwinners in their households. Many women are teetering precariously on the brink of lifelong poverty as a result of illiteracy, unemployment and gender inequality issues. 

The craftswork trainer at work

Save Our Needy believes that women should be given every opportunity to fulfill their potential, no matter their circumstances. They should be organized and strengthened. Investing in women’s economic empowerment will lead to realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of ending hunger, poverty, promoting economic empowerment and gender equality as all these cannot be achieved without empowering women with a means of livelihood.

During the craftswork training

Lifting women out of poverty is one of the most effective antidotes to the nation’s pressing problems. Women play a special role in the society by contributing not only to family well-being, but to community well-being as a whole.

Project SAVE (Skills Acquisition Vocational training and Empowerment) was initiated to help underserved women become self-sufficient through vocational training and economic empowerment. Through this initiative, the organization gives free training on income-generating skills to marginalized and vulnerable women as well as provides them with the necessary equipment to start their own small businesses at the end of the training.

A participant trying her hands on making recycled ankara sandals

Save Our Needy reached out to 30 women living in Ajegunle/Orile (an urban slum) to freely train them on catering (the making of finger foods) and craftwork which involves the use of a local fabric (Ankara) to produce or recycle items such as bags and footwear.

Participants were also trained on financial literacy skills, leadership skills and entrepreneurship skills. These skills will prepare them for their new small businesses.

 

During the craftswork training

Participants engrossed in making finger foods

During the catering class

Cocktails made by participants of the program

During the leadership, entrepreneurship and financial literacy skills class

The project was very successful and all the participants all had wonderful encomiums to pour on the SON team after 5 weeks of intensive training by experts.

Ankara-made bags

 

Recycled bag and sandal made from ankara fabric

Finger foods and cocktails ready for consumption

Since inception, Save Our Needy (SON) has successfully implemented empowerment and entrepreneurship programs aimed at encouraging women and young people to become financially independent.

#EmpowerAWomanEmpowerANation

Save Our Needy Featured On The Intellectual Magazine

Our work has been recognized by The Intellectual Magazine, a highly-rated, all glossy magazine that focuses on education in Africa.

The September /October issue of the magazine profiles Save Our Needy and its founder as well as gives insight into all the organization's past and future projects.

To know more about The Intellectual Magazine, please visit: www.theintellectualmag.com

Support Project SAVE

We hope to commence a three-month (3 month) program entitled S.A.V.E (Skills Acquisition, Vocational training & Empowerment) to provide free training on vocational and life skills to one hundred and twenty (120) disadvantaged young people and women.

Through Project SAVE, we wish to train and empower single mothers, widows, unemployed graduates, school dropouts and at-risk youths on valuable and income-earning skills including cake baking and decoration, make up artistry, bead making, tailoring, catering, arts and crafts, hairdressing/barbing, event venue decoration and ICT.

Participants will be provided with the necessary tools at the end of the program, in line with the training they received, to help them start their own small businesses.

Unemployment particularly among youths is fast becoming a time bomb in Nigeria. Also many widows in Africa face not only emotional distress but most times, financial insecurity when they lose their husbands. These women are abandoned to their own fate and left to cater for their children although they cannot boast of a source of income. The militant group, Boko Haram, has rendered many women particularly in Northern Nigeria, widows. It is time to save these women from a life of despair.

Project SAVE is a campaign which is inspired to help lift every disadvantaged woman out of poverty so that they can take hold of equal opportunities, break from cultural and social constraints that may be holding them back, and become drivers of poverty reduction.

Please join us as we restore hope to the hopeless and give underserved women and youths, the opportunity to secure a brighter and less burdensome future.

The Program will insist on deliberately  targeting 75% women within its beneficiaries because we strongly believe in the saying, ''Empower A Woman, Empower A Nation.''

The start date for the program is October 2nd 2015. It will take place in Lagos State and Abuja.

We hope to touch more than 1,000 lives either directly or indirectly at the end of the program.

We humbly ask for your support in cash donations or in kind to make this program not only a reality but a huge success.

Kindly send your cash donations to:
Save Our Needy Organisation
Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank)
0168556004

Donations in kind should please be in form of materials needed for the implementation of the project.
Drop off location is:
Ikeja Plaza, near Ikeja bridge, Ikeja General Hospital

Your contribution(s) will be duly acknowledged on all our social media pages unless you wish to remain anonymous.

If you wish to partner with us on this project or any of our projects, please send an email to: saveourneedy@gmail.com OR call +2349025600734, +2348151546111. We look forward to hearing from you.

Please visit our website to see a more comprehensive list of our work and the lives we have touched so far: www.saveourneedy.org
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THANK YOU and God BLESS you abundantly.