An Abuja-based NGO, Anneozeng Ogozi Aid Foundation (AOAF) on Sunday, empowered 55 widows after engaging them on different skills acquisition in Abuja.
The Founder of the NGO, Anneozeng Ogozi, told NAN in Abuja, that the women who were drawn from eight different communities within the territory were given start-up capital of N30,000 each after training.
According to her, the gesture is to coincide with the International Widow’s Day usually marked on June 23 by the United Nations.
The Day, first marked in 2010, set aside to address poverty and injustice faced by widows and their children in many countries.
“Their names and contacts were carefully selected and sent to the foundation by the village heads in these communities. Some of the communities are in Karu, Dutse, Kabusa and Basa areas of Abuja,” she said.
She said that the beneficiaries were trained on pastry making, soap production and other entrepreneurial skills development.
One of the beneficiaries, Victoria Uzo, who sells Akara at Karu junction, expressed gratitude to the NGO for the opportunity to learn a skill free of charge.
“I always have interest in learning how to make doughnuts, meat pie, chin-chin and other pastries but for every single place I had been to, they always request for N5,000 and above which I didn’t have.
