… 1,000 Beneficiaries Laud Initiative at Alimosho Closing Ceremony

By Edozie Obasi-Eze

In a quest to improve the lives of underserved women across diverse communities, The Coca-Cola Foundation-funded women empowerment initiative, Catalyst for Change, implemented by a local NGO partner, Karis and Eleos Hand of Hope Foundation, has successfully empowered another batch of 1,000 women in Alimosho, Lagos State.

This makes it a total of 10 communities reached under the scheme with over 10,000 women impacted. The initiative focused on providing business and vocational skills to help lift them out of poverty and marginalization, and finally over 2,000 women provided with start-up kits to help kick-start their small-scale enterprises – 200 of which received start-up kits at the Alimosho closing ceremony.

The Catalyst for Change Scheme is one of Coca-Cola’s several women empowerment and youth development initiatives where women are trained in some essential vocational skills such as pastry making, shoemaking, fashion designing, makeup artistry, wig making, tie and dye, household essentials, and bag making. Some participants were also provided with financial literacy and business management classes around bookkeeping, personal and product branding, social media management, and customer relationship management.

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