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Source: StarAfrica
Nigeria and Procter and Gamble (P&G), a multinational organisation, have signed a Memorandum Of Understanding to support women empowerment initiative called 'Growing Girls and Women in Nigeria (GWIN).
Speaking at the ceremony on Friday in Abuja, Nigeria's Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said that the partnership was a welcome development for the empowerment of women in the country.
She said that GWIN would provide structured trainings and skills acquisition to girls and women in the country.
"The GWIN is an innovation programme being implemented through MOU among the ministries of finance; communications technology; water resources; agriculture and women affairs," she said.
Explaining the gains of the initiative, she said that 1,120 women had been trained on agricultural skills and 2.5 million women registered under the e-wallet system for collection of fertilizers.
The Managing Director, Procter and Gamble Nigeria, Mr George Nassar, said that the company was desirous of leveraging the GWIN project to further propagate its global strategy of improving the lives of women.