By Prince J Musa in Kenema
Future Focus Foundation, a community volunteer group, has provided start up kits for twenty-five teenage mothers following the conclusion of a two-year skills training project in Kenema.
National Team Leader of the Foundation, Sylvester Sidie Kallon, said the support which they got from Child Hope UK, will help to empower the women and ensure they become self-reliant.
Kallon states: “Each group has five trainees and each will be entitled to three tailoring machines with necessary tools attached to it.
He added that the donation is one of the support in the form of tools for self-reliance that Child Hope UK has provided following the completion of the skills training.
“The equipment is given on free of cost basis, but we have to monitor it to ensure that the machines are used judiciously,” he said.
Alhaji Emmanuel Sannoh, a chief at Burma community, thanked the Foundation for the gesture. He admonished the recipients to take full advantage of the opportunity.
“I appreciate Future Focus for complementing government’s efforts in building the human resource in this part of the country,” Chief Sannoh said, adding: “other young people are yearning for such opportunity but couldn’t get it, you have benefited from it, make use of it for the support of your family.”
One of the beneficiaries of the start –up kits, Bintu Jengo, said: “Future Focus has redeemed us from abject poverty through this skills training. My colleague trainees, let us make use of this opportunity to develop ourselves.”
Ms Jengo encouraged other young mothers not to depend on men for everything in their lives, urging them to also learn skills that will support them.
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