By Comfort Ikpeme | Project Leader
The economic skills training for GPI Calabar Centre girls took place in GPI Calabar center. A total of 278 (two hundred and seventy-eight) adolescent girls were in attendance and took part in the training.
This is to help equip adolescent girls with different skills which will help them become self-reliant towards their healthy development and expose them to business opportunities; thereby making the girls financially and economically independent and avoid being exploited.
The training featured production of cleaning agents’/hair products and confectionery.
Two female resource persons were brought in to coach the girls and also shared their experiences on how they ventured into learning a skill and how it has helped them to be financially and economically empowered. This was to help motivate the girls and bring out their entrepreneurial skills.
After the basics from the resources persons, the girls were divided into various groups to take turns to practice what they have learnt during the theory classes. Girls were able to produce liquid soaps, hair cream, hair shampoo, Izal, fish pie, cakes, chin-chin, puff-puff and cookies.
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