First Lady’s tricycles for Katsina women
As part of the activities to mark the 2013 International Women’s Day, Dr. Fatima Ibrahim .Shehu Shema, wife of the governor of Katsina State, through her Women Empowerment Programme, distributed 204 tricycles popularly called Keke-NAPEP to six women each in each of the 34 local government areas of the state including 34 women living with HIV/ AIDS.
The Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (ABU) trained business administrator, while donating the items, emphasized the need for the society to stop stigimatizing people living with HIV/AIDS as it is no longer a death sentence as it was being viewed in time past.”
You can live a normal life even as you contract the virus once you are on time with your medication. It is about living a purposeful life,” Mrs Shema declared. The tricycles to women including people living with HIV/AIDS, according to her, is one of the ways the state government is alleviating poverty among our women.
She also gave out grinding machines with complete accessories which were distributed to a group of 15 women plus N50,000.00 take-off grant and 2 bags of Groundnut and all the accessories for groundnut oil extraction distributed with fifty thousand naira take-off grant.
“Women, of course, are better managers of resources if given the right opportunity. That opportunity is what the state government has just demonstrated now. I believe that with this empowerment,we would have succeeded in increasing wealth creation and reduction of poverty in our land”.
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