Hurray! Here Comes Our Beautiful Products!

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Within the space of 5 weeks, the girls had gained mastery in making beads, fascinators, caps, flower-verse, foot-mats, wristbands, brooch and much more. They wouldn’t let me be- they needed money to make products towards their graduation ceremony.
And so we had to make fund available. It was small money but it was so amazing to see how well they utilized it. The tables were filled with beautiful items.
The graduation ceremony was splendid. It held during our monthly mentoring session and had in attendance over 200 youths and 20 adults. Some of the widows also came to felicitate with their graduating daughters. Although some of the girls would not pull through because they didn’t meet up with our criteria, 16 out of the 22 finally graduated on 13th July and were all awarded certificates.
The best three also got start up funds to begin their own businesses.
Of course we sold some of the items at the event. But we still have many more to sell and we need buyers. Proceeds from the sales will be turned over to empower more girls as entrepreneurs.
Wow! It can only get better!

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