Coca-Cola, NEWIG train Asante Akim women in employable skills 

The COCA COLA Foundation and Network of Women in Growth Ghana (NEWIG), an NGO, last week organised 3-days Training in Soap and Softener making for women in the Asante Akim area at Krofa in the Asante Akim South Municipality of the Ashanti region.

Sponsored by the Coca-Cola Foundation, the project is aimed at economic inclusion of marginalised women living in urban centres by training them in soap making, snail rearing and mushroom farming to empower the women through skills and businesses for their future.

Ms. Mawulawoe Awity, the Executive Director of NEWIG, explained that the project is a 2-year training programme in partnership with the Coca Cola Foundation covering four regions of the country, namely Greater Accra, Western, Ashanti and the Northern regions and the target is to train 300 women across the four regions of the country.

She said over 70 women from Krofa, Juansa, Adomfe, Konongo, Morso and Obogu in the Asante Akim enclave have benefited from the training in soap making and softener and the beneficiaries were each given a start up kits so that they can go and start something on their own to serve as capital to build on and continue with the purpose of the project.

The Executive Director also disclosed that some of the women would be selected at the end of the project for an intensive entrepreneurship programme where they will be equipped with more skills and capacity building as well as given a grant to be able to start their businesses.

Ms. Awity said as part of the training programme, NEWIG has liaised with SSNIT, Ghana Enterprise Agency and Afram Rural Bank PLC to educate the beneficiaries on financial literacy and the resources that they can access from the Ghana Enterprise Agency and also how to contribute to the SSNIT scheme from the informal sector.

She said in order to monitor the progress of the beneficiaries after the training, NEWIG would be relying on Erudite Women Empowerment Foundation(EWEF), also an NGO operating in the Asante Akim area, apart from NEWIG itself periodically returning to the community to check on the beneficiaries and calling them on phone to ascertain their progress.

Nana Yaa Ntidwuma I, Krofahemaa, stated that it is a good idea that the banks and SSNIT are involved in the training programme to educate the beneficiaries on the importance of savings and the informal sector contributions of SSNIT and added that it would be irrelevant if the training and the skills acquired are not put to good use.

From Thomas Agbenyegah Adzey, Asante Akim Krofa

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