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Ondo
State government has organized a weeklong skill acquisition programme for the
traditional and mission birth attendant popularly known as Agbegis in Akure
South Local Government of the state
The
programme includes Hat/Bead making, Tie and Dye, liquid/solid soap making, izal
making and catering.
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While
speaking the commissioner for health, Dr. Dayo Adeyanju said skill acquisition
for TBA’s and MBA’s became necessary because the state government wanted them
to be engaged.
“What we are trying to do is, if we
are saying they should refer that means they will be jobless and have nothing
to do. The governor has mandate that since they do not have business in
delivery anymore, we have to create another opportunity for them so as to
empower them in ensuring they have something to do” he stated.
He posited that if they were exited
from delivering without providing for them what can make ends meet, it means
they will go into hiding to the delivery.
Adeyanju
disclosed that after the training, the state government will provide a micro
credit loan for them to benefit from so as to carry on in life.
He
said this gesture will prove to others that the government is serious and have
a vision to really see that government is maintain its zero tolerance on
maternal death. “And also it means that anybody caught after this will be
sanctioned as government has given a leverage to exit the job”
Adeyanju
also disclosed that the governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko will soon flag off the
scale up of the programme officially
According
to him, “we are going to have collaboration with Micro Credit Agency, Women
affairs, Technical and vocation and other line ministries.”
“The
bottom line is that we want to secure our tomorrow, children and pregnant
mothers he stated”.
Also speaking, the executive
secretary of the State Primary Health Care Development Board, Dr. Olugbenga
Osunmakinde said the state government in his caring heart manner has decided to
empower the women through the skill acquisition programme, to provide loans for
them after the programme, to ensure that they have learnt and they can have
alternative means of earning.
Earlier, the Special Adviser to the
Governor on Maternal Death Reduction, Mrs. Funmilola Oluwadare who
congratulated the women for being the first beneficiaries of the programme,
admonished them to be attentive and learn all what they will be taught.
No fewer than 100 women benefited
from the skill acquisition programme.
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