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Betty Akeredolu, first lady of Ondo state, has organised trainings for over 150 vulnerable and unemployed young women in Okitipupa local government area of the state.

Akeredolu presented certificates to the women after a training which lasted two days.

She urged them to make good use of the skills they learnt, noting that the goal of the empowerment exercise is to ensure that more women are empowered in the state.

Akeredolu explained the programme was among the line-up of activities to her husband’s 100 days in office.

The first lady said when a woman is empowered and has a reliable source of income, her family becomes stable.

Participants at the sensitisation programme learnt bag making, shoe making, hairdressing and wig making.

Morenike Alaka, wife of the chairman of Okitipupa local government area, said the support given to the women would go a long way in equipping them towards contributing their quota to their family’s development.

“Some of the women that are being trained today were impregnated and abandoned; some are school dropouts that have no form of certificates to acquire jobs that would sustain them,” she said.

“But with this kind of training, they are now empowered to become self-reliant. Henceforth these women are going to be financially independent.”