…. From Just A Girl Mount Barclay Skills Training
Monrovia, February 2, 2023, 17 women have graduated from the Just A Girl Skill Training Program.
The women are the first batch of beneficiaries of the Just a Girl skills training program in the Mount Barclay community.
This comes following the completion of six months of intensive training in the areas of tailoring, interior decoration, catering, and pastry.
Just a Girl Initiative is a non-profit organization that was established in late 2014 by a Liberian journalist, Evelyn Kpadeh Seagbeh, with the mission of advocating for and providing empowerment opportunities to girls and women to enable them to live productively.
In 2022, Just A Girl extended its tuition-free vocational program to Mount Barclay following a request from Mrs. Gladys Somah, a community dweller who saw the need for the empowerment of women within the community.
Recently, a total of 19 beneficiaries, predominantly women, and 2 men were certificated, and some were awarded honors for their exceptional performance in their respective departments during the course of the training.
In a special remark at the graduation ceremony, Madam Evelyn Kpadeh Seagbeh, Founder of Just A Girl, congratulated the beneficiaries for their bold steps taken to acquire life skills.
Madam Seagbeh also disclosed plans to extend the Just A Girl empowerment program to Grand Bassa or Bong Counties, hoping that the communities’ dwellers in those counties can provide the facility or building to house the center.
According to Madam Seagbeh, her goal is to build a generation of empowered Liberian girls and women beyond counties and borders to give them economic empowerment in order for them to have self-sustainable lives and reduce their economic vulnerabilities.
For her part, in a keynote address, Moth. Faith Freeman, a resident of Mount Barclay, encouraged the graduates to make use of the skills they acquired from the program and be honest in their business dealings.
Mother Freeman also urged the graduates to put more time into what they have learned, adding that “whatsoever your hand is able to do, do it with all your might and sincerely until you see result and profit.” Don’t just do it any kind of way. Some of you are not doing it the right way, which is why you are not moving forward. “If you are fixing cake or doughnuts, do it better.”
“Learn and choose empowerment for a better tomorrow.” “We are the new breed God is raising up to bring change to this nation,” she said.
Meanwhile, the graduates used the time to thank Just A Girl Initiatives for empowering them through skills training, stressing that they are going to use those things that were taught to develop their personal lives and also help to educate other women and girls out there.
