The Coca-Cola Foundation through the African Fashion Development and Empowerment Centre (AFDEC) has empowered women across communities in three local government a b reas of Lagos State.
With its “Awambi” programme which ran between January and March in Eti-Osa, Alimosho, and Ikorodu Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Lagos, 308 women were directly trained and 1,540 others received indirect training and social benefits with outstanding participants provided with start-up kits.
The initiative was created to provide access to networking, mentorship, and internship opportunities for young women in technology, and to educate and support them in building sustainable livelihood through entrepreneurship and relevant skills acquisition training.
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Some course modules offered during the programme included book-keeping, accounting, inventory and financial management, accessing funding, business registration, taxation, online and offline pricing, customer relationship management, marketing strategy, sales conversion and service delivery, among others.
Top participants from the “Tech For Creatives” module provided expertise in their new skills on virtual and paid content/social media management in a one-month supervised work placement with enterprises linked to them by AFDEC.
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The foundation is focused on sustainable access to safe water, climate resilience and disaster risk preparedness and response, circular economy, economic empowerment, and causes impacting its hometown community.