Saamasang
Federation, in collaboration with ChildFund the Gambia, recently conducted a
one-day entrepreneurship training for parents, at the Saamasang new building in
Brikama.
The
training was held to enhance the women’s productivity in their daily business
transactions through building capacities to ensure they earn relevant skills
and the knowledge of starting and maintaining a successful business. They were
being trained to be able to earn better and support their children.
The
course focused on subjects such as starting a business, maintaining a business
successfully, making market research, record keeping and the 4ps and T of the
market.
Speaking
at the opening ceremony, Ebrima Sonko of Saamasang and the community mobilizer
of Kabafita Association, emphasised the importance of the training, saying it targeted
members of Kabafita C.A and mainly female parents.
They
were about 50 participants from 8 different clusters, including Kabafita
clusters, Nema Water House, Nema Taba, Gidda Kankiling Misira, and Kenbujeh
Madina.
“We
cannot meet all the needs of the children but if the ChildFund and the
Saamasang Federation continue to support the parents on anything or the
businesses they are doing, the parents also will support their children through
that business,” he said, adding: “This why it is very important to provide
training for these parents so they can achieve what they need to support their
children.”
According
to Mr Sonko, that was not the first time for Saamasang to provide such training
for parents in the West Coast Region.
He
said they had done a lot of such trainings for women owning businesses, selling
clothes, foods, and dealing in soap making.
“All
these will help them on how to help their children in terms of their education
and health, for instance,” he explained.
He
advised the participants to be serious with the training and to see it as
opportunity because Kabafita Community Association has 13 clusters and 8 were
lucky to be part of the training, which is for the future of their children.
For
her part, Mam Tutty Janha, a business woman, who is also a participant, thanked
Saamasang and ChildFund The Gambia for their “wonderful support” to the women
and, by extension, their children.
She
appealed to Saamasang Federation for them to continue supporting the women and
their children as well as help them in the soap-making business they do.
