UNFPA/ESLF Support 30 GBV Survivors in Benue with Start-Up Kits


By Our Reporter 

The United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) in collaboration with Eunice Spring of Life Foundation (ESLF) train and supported 30 victims of Gender Based Violence (GBV) with start-up kits.

The training and support to the victims took place in Makurdi.

Our Correspondent reports that the start-up kits were for the production of liquid soap, wigs and reusable sanitary pads. 

The Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs Tabitha Igirgi, admonished them to put the skills they acquired to enhance their income. 

Igirgi stressed that if they put the skills the acquired to judicious use they would reap the rich dividends of their enterprise within a few month. 

Meanwhile, the UNFPA Focal Person in the State who is also an Assistant Director at the Benue State Planning Commission, Mr Matthew Ge, admonished the beneficiaries not to dispise their little beginning pointing out that big businesses start small.

Ge advised the trainees on quality production and product branding to make them more marketable.

Also, the Programme Manager of ESLF, Tine Agernor, explained that the trainees were carefully selected as GBV survivors from Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camps in the State.

Agernor pointed out that the training was targeted at economic empowerment of GBV survivors to help mitigate the incessant cases of GBV spiked by lack of alternative income sources in homes.

The programme manager added that the start-up packs would aid instant take off of their businesses.

Speaking on behalf of the Director General of the commission, the Permanent Secretary Mr Stephen Gbagi,  appreciated UNFPA for sustaining the programme since 2007 and commended the state government for providing the critical counterpart funding that enabled the state have access to funding for such programmes. 

Gbagi thanked the State First Lady, Dr Eunice Ortom for using her foundation to implement such life-changing programmes that would go along way to reduce the scourge of GBV.

A cross section of the beneficiaries appreciated ESLF, UNFPA and the state government for giving them succour.

They promised to put the knowledge they acquired to use, stating that the opportunity was a step forward for them to make life better for themselves, their families and communities.

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