Amani Muslim Women Empowerment Initiative, a faith-based group, has awarded grants to 250,000 women entrepreneurs with grants to boost their small-scale businesses.
The coordinator of the initiative, Hajiya Hadrat Omipidan, at the Grant Award Ceremony in Abuja weekend said the support was part of the group’s major project for the year.
Omipidan said 250,000 was given to each woman to upscale their business and help them stabilise against economic challenges.
She stated that the goal of the initiative is to promote self and collective developments and improve the well-being of women through empowering engagements, schemes and programs that are in tandem with the tenets of Islam.
This, she said, would enable more women build momentum and connections that would foster sustainable social and economic developments.
“We started Amani Muslim Women Empowerment Initiative five years ago, it is about giving back to the society.
“We have done a lot of projects in the past. We have gone to correctional centres, we have gone to hospitals, in fact last month, we did another hospital charity,” she said.
Omipidan commended the sponsors for their support over the years, saying, “May God continue to bless them, and grant them their wishes.”
She implored the government to help women stabilise economically.
“I am sure if our First Lady can help us with grants like this, we will be able to do more for our society.
“We have been doing so many charity outreaches; during Ramadan, we fed over 300 widows, we gave out cash and food stuff, however, this is the first time we are giving our members grants to empower them.”
Some of the beneficiaries expressed their gratitude to the group and to God for the privilege to be picked.