Ekiti gov’s wife launches new initiative for women empowerment

The wife of the Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, has launched the Women Empowerment Team (WET), which she said was designed as a capacity building and empowerment programme for women across the 177 wards in the state.

The scheme will operate through clusters and cooperative groups to be established across the state.

Mrs Fayemi said at the launch on Tuesday that the initiative was proposed to be a “women-helping-women approach” through a network of cooperative societies designed to foster peer-learning, knowledge sharing, skills acquisition and socio-economic, and risk mitigation interventions for vulnerable women in the state.

She pointed out that the purpose of the initiative, codenamed ObinrinKete, was to achieve the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals 5, leaving no woman behind.