MAM Foundation Empowers Out-of-School Girls in Ogun with Skills, Start-up Support
The Moses Adekoyejo Majekodunmi Foundation has trained six out-of-school girls in Ogun State in fashion design, catering, and hairdressing, providing them with starter packs, equipment, and cash to establish their businesses.
The foundation also inducted nine new girls into the program, which aims to combat poverty by economically empowering women.
Executive Director Dr. Bolaji Fati emphasized the importance of economically empowering women, noting that the training will multiply and help reduce poverty in the state.
The program, now in its seventh year, has empowered numerous girls, and the foundation hopes to continue reducing poverty in the state.
The foundation also provided the girls with starter packs, equipment, and cash to help them establish their businesses, while also inducted another 9 sets of people to be trained for another year.
This initiative aims to empower out-of-school girls and provide them with a means of sustainable income, helping to eradicate poverty.
The Executive Director of the Foundation Dr. Mrs. Bolaji Fati disclosed that the Foundation didn’t just put them to their different choice of skills, but also gave monthly allowance, transportation fees, and practical fees to enable them to learn in the best way.
She explained further that giving the out-of-school girls such an empowerment opportunity is like empowering them economically, adding such training will multiply and they can be helpful to others and reduce poverty in the state.
“This out-of-school program has been on for 7 years, we have been training girls who dropped out of school or decided not to go to school again. So we thought it was important that they are economically empowered. Let us train them with what they love to do, and use that to develop themselves, and economically empower themselves.
“This is to reduce the economic hardship in the country, especially for women, because we believe that women are more economically challenged in this country, and once you train a girl she multiplies the training, she makes her brother go to school, she helps her family to grow”.
“Also, we are inaugurating another set of 9 girls either to learn catering or fashion design, these girls that have been inaugurated today are going to learn for one year, and in that one year we are going to take care of their transport, we pay for any incidental issue that may occur in the process of their training, and pay their trainers.
“At the end of the day, we are hoping to empower people and reduce the poverty level in this state, and that is what we are doing here”.
Dr. Fati advised the beneficiaries to start making themselves relevant in what they had learned, by making the conversation and telling people what they doing for it would make them unique and attain progress and success in their endeavor.
“I will advise them to start making the conversation, begin to tell people what you are doing, look for what will make them unique and they will see that progress is coming”.
Expressing her joy, one of the beneficiaries Ruth Okefuro recounted that the MAM Foundation had helped her dream come true, noting that she had tried in so many ways to learn catering skills, but she was financially handicapped and the foundation made her realize the dream.
“Actually, catering has been my passion since I was in primary school, though I had tried it before, I didn’t have money to get the equipment, but thanks to Moses Adekoyejo Majekodunmi Foundation that made my dream come true”.
In the same development, one Adedeji Pelumi stated that the foundation helped because she had never believed that she could become a fashionista. But they made a dream come true for me. I’m grateful.
Speaking also, the Director of Bliss Couture Mrs. Folashade Odeyemi encouraged the beneficiaries and the newly inducted ones to utilize the opportunity brought to them.
She advised trained one to bear the name given to them, that the liberated and successful one. While urging the upcoming to be ready to learn and change their minds from the vulnerable ones to the liberated ones.
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