Vodafone Partners UNDP, Access Bank To Empower Women

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with Vodafone Ghana and Access Bank, has trained 60 local women in the Upper East Region on strategies of safekeeping their business earnings in their respective communities.

The move, according to the implementing bodies, seeks to holistically help women achieve and accelerate their business capitals through the technological banking system.

Speaking at a training session held in Bolgatanga, Ms. Sylvia Senu, Economic Analyst at UNDP, said the training will enable the women to save more, increase, and improve their savings culture.

“If they can save more, increase, improve their savings culture; what it means is that they will save enough to help them access healthcare, assess education for their kids, and many more.”

Ms. Senu noted also that the 60 women who have undergone the training would be expected to further train their colleagues in their respective communities.

“What we are doing is to empower them to take a step-down training for their colleagues. So, we are estimating that over 2000 women will benefit from this training we are having here by the step-down training that those who would have received here would have shared out or spread out to their colleagues.”