By Kitts D.Mabonga
Women have been encouraged to seize the opportunity presented by the favorable economic conditions and acquire fresh expertise in producing goods and providing services at the small-scale level.
This approach is currently recognized as an effective means of combating poverty, enhancing their financial well-being, and ensuring that girls too complete school.
Over the weekend, the President of the Mothers Union Namirembe Diocese church of Uganda, Roseline Biingi Kawiso, initiated a special hands-on training program for her executive members in which they were trained in making reusable sanitary towels for women and girls, and other economic empowerment programs aimed at boosting their income-generating opportunities.
Last month the Kawiso, led a 40 member delegation of Mothers Union women from different parts of the Central region on a benchmarking visit to their counterparts in South Ankole diocese, in Ntungamo district.
The visit exposed the women to several new entrepreneurship skills and innovations opportunities which heavily enriched their knowledge capacity especially in areas such as learning how to make reusable pads, knitting, making liquid soaps and detergents, modern cookery skills and project planning and management in entrepreneurship systems among other opportunities.
The women at Namirembe graduated with certificates in various fields of professional skills of which they were urged to employ back to their immediate respective communities by teaching those below them as a deliberate strategy of fighting household poverty.
“We implore you to return back to your immediate respective communities and employ the new vocational skills knowledge you have acquired and ensure that you impart the skills to those other women and youth such that they too can effectively be in apposition to start up their own small family or household projects,” noted Kawiso.
The participants appreciated the training saying it had broadened their knowledge potential and exposed them to new systems of making money using locally improvised technologies.
Bishop Moses Banja of Namirembe Diocese has always encouraged the Christian communities not to look at the government for white collar jobs but to seek local vocational empowerment knowledge which yields immediate results upon graduation by the students.
He pointed out that both the Mothers and Fathers Unions within the church have been instrumental in working with government agencies in sensitizing people about fighting poverty through vocational skills training platforms.
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