{"id":15364,"date":"2024-01-09T20:10:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T20:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=15364"},"modified":"2024-01-09T20:11:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T20:11:01","slug":"empowering-women-through-training-and-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/empowering-women-through-training-and-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowering Women Through Training and Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security, through the Guyana Women\u2019s Leadership Institute, is actively training and supporting more women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a recent initiative, 63 women were equipped to become entrepreneurs or enhance their skills through the Women Innovation and Investment Network (WIIN) culinary and garment construction courses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The participants received sewing machines, gas stoves, and certificates for their successful completion of the courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Women&#8217;s Innovation and Investment Network (WIIN) is a program designed to empower women and facilitate financial stability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The distribution exercise, a collaborative effort between the ministry and UN Women, aimed to support women&#8217;s entrepreneurship and economic independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Graduates shared positive experiences from the program, emphasizing the value of the skills acquired and the opportunities for personal and professional growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Dr. Vindhya Persaud, highlighted that the initiative is part of a broader strategy to help women transition from dependency to independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This effort contributes to the broader goal of fostering women&#8217;s empowerment, skill development, and financial self-sufficiency in Guyana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security, through the Guyana Women\u2019s Leadership Institute, is actively training and supporting more women. In a recent initiative, 63 women were equipped to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15366,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15364\/revisions\/15366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}