The Women’s Progressive Organisa-tion (WPO) recently organised a skills training programme for a group of unemployed women, including single parents, teenagers and victims/survivors of domestic violence, to foster economic empowerment.
A release from the organisation, which is the women’s arm of the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP), said that the strategy behind the training programme was to teach the women a skill in order to earn an income. It said that in anticipation of the upcoming Christmas holidays, the skills learnt will allow the women to sell their creations to earn money for themselves and families, which will assist in poverty reduction.
At the end of the training programme, an exhibition was held on September 10, 2013 at the