Sierra Leone News: CECSHIP graduates 30 vulnerable women

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A National Non-Governmental Organization Centre for Encouraging, Caring and Supporting HIV People (CECSHIP) has graduated (30) thirty vulnerable women which include out of school teenage mothers from various skills training in Kenema, and the graduation ceremony took place at the Holy Trinity Parish hall along Blama Road in Kenema. In her statement, the chairperson of the ceremony, Jalahan Jakema Amara described the occasion as “another milestone” for young women and teenage mothers in Kenema district. She commended CECSHIP for their efforts in providing opportunities for women who are most vulnerable in society. She said CECSHIP has not just empowered the grandaunts as individuals but their families too, adding for any nation to develop it needs women participation in all spheres of life. She called on the parents to fully support their children in making judicious use of the items provided for them. She thanks donors for their intervention and appeal to other humanitarian organizations to come to the aid of CECSHIP in helping the most vulnerable women in society adding hundreds of them are out there that wants to benefit from such opportunity. Giving an overview of the program, the National Coordinator for CECSHIP, Mohamed Tailu told his disclosed that the organization was formed as a community base organization in 2007 but later attained the status of Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in 2001 and is registered with the local councils, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED), Sierra Leone Association of Non-Governmental Organization (SLANGO) and other line ministries. Mohamed Tailu further stated that CECSHIP intervention is to provide basic amenities to HIV/AIDS vulnerable women, youths, teenage mothers and Orphans Vulnerable Children (OVC) by promoting, caring and supporting their human dignity as Sierra Leoneans. The National Coordinator maintained that with fund from German Organization KFW/NAS and CARE CECSHIP in partnership with three vocational institutions in Kenema they were able to train the women in five components/courses of choice, which are soap making, tailoring, catering and gara-tie dying haven gone through ten months period as means to complement government effort in making them become self-reliance in life. He pointed out that they were able to provide tuition fees for the trainees, uniforms, and for the practical work among others. He disclosed that there more vulnerable women on their list that need immediate support. In her keynote address, the Deputy Mayor of Kenema City Council, Esther Nguanya Kaisamba expressed thanks and appreciation to CECSHIP for empowering young women to become useful in their various communities. She said for a very long time women has been classed as people fit in the kitchen and idea that have make in our society left behind in all sectors of development, adding that most of women have been marginalized because of tradition and custom but the day of marginalization is over at this modern times and therefore called on the grandaunts to make good use of the skills and knowledge for the development of their home and the community as a whole. She encouraged the grandaunts to use the start-up kits for it intended purpose and for them to serve as Ambassadors to other young women in their communities to come forward for more skill training causes. Tuesday March 29, 2016

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