LAGOF, Face of Liberty to provide entrepreneurial skills to 2,023 women in year 2023

Leonard and Grace Ogunweide Foundation with support from Face of Liberty International and Atlas Network, United States has launched a new initiative dubbed  "Project Mmepe Obodo" to train 2,023 vulnerable women especially young girls in NIgeria  on vocational skills. 

The name “MMEPE OBODO” comes from the Igbo language and its a two word coming together to form one. “MMEPE” means “Development” while “OBODO” means “Community”.

The project is focusing on empowering women in our local communities by arming them with requisite vocational skills to help them get out of abject penury. It is noteworthy that many women of childbearing age and those who are already mothers have no skillsets’ whatsoever and they rely totally on their partner for all things (I know some husband don’t want their wives to work, I am not referring to those set right now). I am talking about those who have no restriction of working but they don’t know any means to make ends meet.

These are the set of individuals we want to equip with trainings on what they could start small and thereby become financially and economically free, moving away from abject poverty.

We are therefore calling on corporations, institutions, individuals, and philanthropists in our society to join us in making this project a success. We have in mind to train and empower Two Thousand and Twenty-Three (2,023) Individuals by the end of 2023.