The President of G-Empow-erment Programme, High Chief Grant Offor, has said he will form a cooperative scheme to house all graduands of his pet project in order to enable them enjoy a sort of back-up support by the system.
Offor said this at the presentation of starter-packs to 55 young wowen in Omagwa community in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State last Sunday.
The Sponsor, who was represented by Comrade Samuel Chikweri, noted that the Cooprative, when in force, will enable members to diversify their businesses by accessing loan from the scheme.
According to him, members will be at liberty to be shareholders of the scheme, which can be funded by the project.
The vision, he said, was borne out of gratitude and a way of paying back to the society.
He also said the progamme was not limited to Omagwa people, but the entire state.
The training programme, he further explained, was to aid those whose immediate family could not foot the bill to acquire skills acqusition.
Also speaking, the Coodinator of the programme, Amb. Genevieve Ezeocha, said part of the reasons for the project was to “wipe out tears from the faces of women and less priviledged in the society”.
Ezeocha, whose organisation , Graced Finger Global Services, worked in conjuntion with the G-Empowerment programme in training the granduands, noted that a monitoring facility will be introduced to help and regulate the beneficiaries.
She siad it would not be business as usual, as the products of the graduands are expected to flood the open market.
One of the graduands, Elizabeth Ichem, who praised the sponsor, promised not to turn down the opportunity, but to ensure that proper attenion is given to it in order to enjoy the targeted multiplier effect.
The graduands were trained on gele tying, catering, arts/printing, fashion and design, nosmetology and capacity building.

King Onunwor