{"id":339529,"date":"2017-07-27T10:38:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T10:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=339529"},"modified":"2017-07-27T10:38:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T10:38:51","slug":"ngo-trains-20-women-in-driving-first-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=339529","title":{"rendered":"NGO trains 20 women in driving, first aid"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Network Of Women In Growth (NEWIG), has trained twenty young (20) women in professional driving, fire prevention, basic self-defense and first aid administration in Accra.<\/p>\n

This is to enable them to compete favorably in those fields which are largely male-dominated.<\/p>\n

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They were taken through 3-month of intensive technical and non-technical training and underwent a month\u2019s internship program with various organizations to practice what they had studied.<\/p>\n

The Acting Executive Director of NEWIG, Mawulawoe Anato-Dumelo, in an interview with Citi News <\/strong>said the organization despite the success, faced challenges raising funds to procure vehicles to facilitate the training of the women.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGetting a place for internship was also a challenge\u2026 we wish more organisations would open their doors to the ladies such as the GPRTU, Banks and many others,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She called on the government to provide avenues for the employment of the drivers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are pleading with the government to open their arms to these women who are drivers to drive the ministers, advisers etc. to enhance them and give them experience\u201d.<\/p>\n

She also pleaded with the government to pass the Affirmative Action Bill into a law since that would enhance the right of women in their work place.<\/p>\n

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The chairperson for the occasion, Dzifa Gomashie, who is a former deputy minister for tourism and creative arts charged the graduates to serve with humility and perseverance in whatever working environment they find themselves.<\/p>\n

NEWIG is committed is to supporting women\u2019s self-development to have full autonomy over their lives.<\/p>\n

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By: Rita Mensah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Network Of Women In Growth (NEWIG), has trained twenty young (20) women in professional driving, fire prevention, basic self-defense and first aid administration in Accra. This is to enable them to compete favorably in those fields which are largely male-dominated. They were taken through 3-month of intensive technical and non-technical training and underwent a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9640,3,382,9641],"class_list":["post-339529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-dzifa-gomashie","tag-ghana-news","tag-gprtu","tag-newig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}