Al-Ansaar Orphanage Home has distributed sewing machines to orphans, a widow and other needy women after training them on tailoring for a year.
The women were drawn from different communities in Kuje Area Council, Abuja, according to Hajiya Amina Abubakar, the Ameera of Al-Ansaar.
Speaking at the graduation ceremony in Abuja, Hajiya Amina said the training was to empower the women to earn a living and support their families.
She, therefore, urged every Muslim to acquire skills to earn a decent living, saying Islam emphasises trading or skills acquisition as exemplified by the Holy Prophets.
She thanked the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Community Social Development Project for supporting the training and urged corporate bodies, groups and well-meaning Nigerians to support Al-Ansaar’s activities towards empowering other women.
On the education of orphans, Hajiya Amina said Al-Ansar International Academy was put in place to mitigate the menace of child street begging and out-of-school children in Abuja.
She said the Academy currently has 74 orphans in the primary session and five in the secondary session.
She said the orphanage also sponsored four orphans to university and two to a private boarding school in Abuja.
“These modest efforts will bring hope and transform the lives of our needy orphans, widows and women in the country,” she said.
One of the beneficiaries, Sumayyah Abdul Kareem, a mother of two, thanked the organisers for the kind gesture and urged other women to acquire skills, saying skills acquisition empowers women to be self-reliant.
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