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Farai Dauramanzi Herald Reporter
Women empowerment lobby group, Concord for Young Women in Business Global, continues to spread its initiative regionally with Namibia being its latest addition.
The empowerment lobby group last week held a goat rearing and ICT training seminar in the Khomasdal constituency in Windhoek, Namibia.
The organisation, which now has chapters in almost all African countries, has so far trained over 30 000 women on ICT and goat rearing in Zimbabwe and other countries such as South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Rwanda.
More trainings are scheduled for Ghana and China before the end of the year. The training seminar that was held in Khomasdal is the organisation’s first in Namibia, and saw over 120 women acquiring skills and receiving certificates.
Speaking during the launch of the training seminar, Concord for Young Women in Business Global president Ms Apphia Nyasha Musavengana said the programme was aiming to reach every province in Namibia.
“These economic empowerment programmes are prerequisite initiatives for sustainable development, as well as to eliminate gender inequalities and marginalisation of women and girls across the southern African region.
“The goat rearing trainings are specifically designed for self-employment and mainly focusing on out-of-school young women to ensure women’s empowerment so that they can sustain their families effectively,” she said.
Namibia’s Information and Technology Minister Emma Theofelous, who was the guest of honour at the training seminar, hailed the initiative saying that it would go a long way in ensuring connectivity for everyone.
Khomasdal constituency councillor, Mr Samuel Angelo expressed gratitude to Concord for bringing the first-of-its-kind collaborative women’s empowerment seminar to his constituency.
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