By Maryam Diallo Dakar
KADUNA, Nigeria – More than 100 community women have received training on women’s rights, domestic violence prevention and peaceful conflict resolution in an initiative aimed at strengthening women’s capacity to address social challenges within their families and communities.
The step-down training, led by Comfort Godwin, took place at Christ Evangelical and Life Intervention Ministry, Sabon Tasha, Kaduna South, Kaduna State.
The initiative is part of efforts to extend the benefits of a paralegal training programme organised by the German Embassy in Abuja in collaboration with the Interfaith Mediation Centre (IMC), Kaduna, to women at the grassroots.
The training was designed to equip participants with basic knowledge of women’s rights, domestic violence prevention, family dispute resolution and available support services, while encouraging them to become advocates for peaceful coexistence and justice in their communities.
Speaking on the importance of the initiative, madam comfort Godwin who is one of the benefiary of the program that step -down the lesson learned during 3days workshop in kaduna,explained that sharing the knowledge acquired through the original training was necessary to ensure that more women understood their rights and knew how to respond to violence, discrimination and other challenges affecting women and families.
She emphasised the importance of empowering women with practical information that would enable them to support one another, identify cases of abuse and seek appropriate assistance from relevant authorities and service providers.
She said,i learned many things on how to meditate and dialogue towards resolving conflict in community
Adding that with the skills and knowledge learned, this will help her to be applying all the principles of conflicts mediation towards promoting peace and unity in community
She called on all the woman she trained to be contributing their quoter to bringing an end to all forms of gender based violence
One of the beneficiaries of the programme, hajiya Ramatu Tijjani, expressed appreciation for the opportunity, noting that it was her first time receiving information on issues relating to women’s rights.
She promised to share the knowledge with other women in neighbouring communities to ensure that more people benefit from the initiative.
The coordinator of the program at kaduna central ibrahima yakubu expressed satisfaction with the women’s response to the programme, particularly their willingness to take the lessons back to their communities and educate others.
Ibrahima disclosed that since the commencement of the project in Kaduna, hundreds of women had acquired relevant knowledge and skills to understand their rights, address domestic violence, resolve family disputes and provide support to other women.
He noted that empowering women as community educators would strengthen access to justice, promote early intervention in cases of violence and contribute to peaceful coexistence.
