GWDYF partners with Mentors International to train 21st-Century Ladies on Technology
Grow With Data (GWD) Youth Foundation has trained no fewer than twenty-three 21st Century ladies on how to make money from home using technology.
The participants were taught graphics designing, web designing, video editing, and blogging, among others, aimed at becoming self-reliant and as well as contribute their quota to the socio-economic development of the nation.
In an interview with Women’s World correspondent shortly after the workshop, the GWD found er, Nnnena Mosugu pointed out that technology had come to stay, hence, the faster the society embraced it, the better for the financial growth of 21st-century people.
According to her, culture hindered women from expressing themselves in the North as statistics had it that 28% of women in the North are literate compared to 84% literate women in the west and east of Nigeria. Hence, the need to train northern women on technology for them to be in tune with changing times.
Nnenna stated that the COVID-19 pandemic had made livelihood worst as it was not easy for women to go round doing businesses as usual, hence the need to train them on how to do business from home using technology.
She revealed that in the next ten (10) years, technology would take over and those who did not cue into the technological advancement would be left behind, adding that the participants were expected to use their data and technology to help themselves, their families, and the society as a whole. While calling on rural women to use whatever in their hands to make money, Mosugu stressed the need for Government to give women the opportunity to contribute to nation-building.
One of the participants who spoke to Women’s World shortly after the workshop said that she learned video editing and graphics design and she would use the knowledge for the purpose intended.
Grow, With Data (GWD) Youth Foundation is a non-profit organization established with the mission of educating Nigeria Youth on financial literacy. It envisions having decisions not only in Nigeria but across the African continent.
Background for skills for 21st-century ladies; the accelerated pace of technological, demographic, and socio-economic disruption is transforming industries and business models, changing skills that employers need and shortening the shelf-life of employees' existing skill sets in the process. The current trend of work from home (WFH) further exacerbates the need to scale up existing work skills.
The workshop was aimed at developing entrepreneurial and business skills among women in Adamawa State and reduces the unemployment rates. To boost women’s resilience, independence, and leadership traits, exposing them to new skills through training. To create opportunities for young women to have other streams of income, allowing them to save money to eventually pursue higher education. This will change the view of women of what they can do to contribute to their families, community, and the economic growth of their immediate environment.