{"id":553,"date":"2020-02-16T16:22:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T16:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/?p=553"},"modified":"2020-03-25T15:09:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T15:09:48","slug":"program-to-empower-women-through-entrepreneurship-commences-in-addu-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/post-553","title":{"rendered":"Program to empower women through entrepreneurship commences in Addu City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A training program to empower women through entrepreneurship\nhas commenced in Addu City. The program is a joint effort between South\nCommunity Empowerment Association (SCEAM) and Majoie Maldives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The program named \u201cBeyond Sustainable\u201d is targeted at stay-at\nhome women who have not received any employment opportunities, to pave way for\nthem to earn a sustainable income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workshop will be held in four different areas of Addu\nCity, the first of which is Meedhoo. It is being conducted in Meedhoo in association\nwith Meedho Ekuveringe Chain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A total of five women from Meedhoo and five women from\nHulhudhoo are taking part in the program which will give them vocational\ntraining and teach them how to earn an income through the vocation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The facilitator of this program is Ms. Nadiya, the owner of\nMajoie Maldives. Ms. Nadiya, a Moroccan, has years of experience in conducting\nsuch programmes successfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this program will be conducted for a period of two\nyears, participants will be taught how to make soaps and scented candles, which\nwill be marketed and promoted by Majoie Maldives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at the ceremony held at Kaaduge, Meedhoo to\ninaugurate the workshop, Ms. Nadiya said that the first thing she noticed upon\nher arrival at Addu City is that women of Addu were self-employed, economically\nindependent women in the 1970s. She also noted the contribution of those women\ntowards manufacturing products for large brands in the factories of Gan during\nthe British colonization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, Ms. Nadiya also mentioned that the lack of such employment opportunities is unfortunate for women, and that it is high time for everyone to work together reopen the factories again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe role of women declined with the introduction of tourism in Maldives. Most husbands are in resorts. Women are waiting at home taking care of their families, waiting for their husbands to send money. The woman does not have much power in the family. She has to rely on her husband for everything. Instead of that, women need to learn a vocation they can do at home and become economically independent\u201d, said Ms. Nadiya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Majority of the participants of Meedhoo\u2019s workshop said that\nalthough they have very high hopes from the training, they usually have to\naimlessly wait for a long time without knowing how to utilise the skills learnt\nfrom the training to proceed further ahead. However, they noted that it is a\nwonderful opportunity as this training program does not only teach them the\nskills, but also helps them manufacture and market the products in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A training program to empower women through entrepreneurship has commenced in Addu City. The program is a joint effort between South Community Empowerment Association (SCEAM) and Majoie Maldives. The program named \u201cBeyond Sustainable\u201d is targeted at stay-at home women who have not received any employment opportunities, to pave way for them to earn a sustainable … Continue reading “Program to empower women through entrepreneurship commences in Addu City”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,1],"tags":[20,85,84,83,8,54,86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}