A sewing machine, a second start
Tailoring, shoe-making, and soap-making cohorts give widows and young women in Kaduna a trade, and the tools to earn from it.
In Unguwan Dosa, Kaduna, the foundation runs hands-on training cohorts for widows and young women: tailoring, shoe and bag making, soap and perfume production. The sessions are practical from the first day (machines threaded, patterns cut, batches mixed) because the goal is not a certificate. It is an income.
Graduates leave with more than a skill. A starter kit (a sewing machine, tools, first materials) means a trainee can take paying work the same week she finishes. For a woman supporting a family alone, that is the difference between training as a memory and training as a livelihood.
The photographs on the foundation's banner are from these cohorts. New cohorts run as funding allows; a gift to the empowerment programme funds the next set of kits.