COCIN Women Skills Center has been positioned to empower men and women with economic skills that will help eradicate poverty in the society.
Mrs. Margaret Ahmed, the Acting Head of the Centre made this known yesterday during a presentation at the ongoing COCIN Women Fellowship Report and Congress meeting holding at the COCIN Headquarters Church in Jos, the Plateau State capital.
While presenting the students alongside some products that they produced within their three months of admission, Mrs. Ahmed told the Proprietor and the delegates that the center is building people in businesses like Catering, Tailoring and Computer in one year, for long time program.
“Right now we have the tailoring section, we have the Catering section with computer section in the one year program. We also have short time skills, like one week, one month and three months”. The acting head added.
She noted that the center is a well equipped large place that can accommodate many students, and it has accommodation for students from outside Jos.
“We have an English teacher, because today you need good communication skills to market your products. Through the English classes, some of the students that could not read can now read and write well as you can hear them speaking.
“We also teach them business Maths, how to handle their financial transactions”. She added.
Mrs. Ahmed was optimistic that the center which was established by the COCIN Women to address global poverty, will bring about transformation in the lives of people and the society at large.
She added that when the students’ capacity is build, they will go out and have their source of livelihoods, emphasizing that there is prospect of producing good Christian entrepreneurs in the center.
The students both male and female displayed some of their products to the women which includes products from the catering and tailoring.
One of the students who is a widow being sponsored at the center by her Regional Church Council, RCC, encouraged other RCCs to support and sponsor orphans and widows among them in the center.
Appreciating the acting head and all staff of the center, the proprietor and the COCIN Women Fellowship Coordinator, Mrs. Godiya Kitgakka commended what they are doing and encouraged the delegates from the RCCs to patronize and propagate the gospel of the center.
Acknowledging their good products, the coordinator requested that the center should bake bread that would serve the over 300 hundred delegates as breakfast on Thursday morning.