Kumasi, April 24, GNA - Sixty members of the Ashanti Regional branch of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Women's Association last year underwent entrepreneurial skills training in dressmaking, soap-making, decoration, batik, tie and dye as well as hair-plaiting and animal rearing. Mrs. Hajara Nuhu, Regional President of the Association, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview in Kumasi on Wednesday that the training lasted six months.

The training, she said, formed part of efforts by the association to equip its members with employable skills. Mrs. Nuhu said the association had also projected to train about 20 women, especially, school drop-outs, this year and that the trainees would be given credit facilities after their training to enable them to start their own business. She appealed to religious bodies to collaborate with corporate bodies to train women to acquire employable skills.