The National Council for Women organized financial education and entrepreneurship training, within the framework of the project “Addressing the Economic Drivers of Illegal Migration,” which the Council is implementing in partnership with the European Union.
It targeted various groups of women from the villages of Abu Qurqas. Dalja, Bani Ubaid, Samalut and Shalqam in Minya Governorate, and continued for 5 days.
May Mahmoud, General Director of Skills Development at the Council and Director of The project stated that entrepreneurship training is organized through the “Female Entrepreneurs Go Ahead” program, while she explained that the financial education training aims to raise awareness and educate women about the financial and economic matters required in their daily lives, which contribute to establishing small and micro enterprises.< /p>
The training aimed to raise women’s capabilities, enhance their skills, and develop their leadership and personal qualities through financial awareness training that helps them set goals, differentiate between basic desires and needs, and ways to Savings and its importance in facing crises and risks, how to deal with financial institutions, and how to prepare a personal budget and follow it up.
In the same context, the National Council for Women organized several other activities in Minya Governorate, including two training in leather and punch needle crafts, targeting women from Mallawi Center and Abu Qurqas Center in the governorate, and other training on sewing, patterns, and printing with chabouri targeted women from the Samalut Center.
These included The trainings teach women the basics and stages of crafts to enhance their capabilities and develop their skills to create job opportunities and a source of income to improve the standard of living for themselves and their families within the framework of achieving women’s economic empowerment.
It is noteworthy that the project "Addressing the Economic Drivers of Illegal Migration" It aims to work to encourage the provision of an alternative to illegal immigration, by encouraging the development of projects and creating job opportunities for women and youth in the governorates of Beheira, Gharbia, Luxor, and Minya, in addition to implementing awareness-raising activities to highlight the risks associated with illegal immigration based on previous efforts.
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