Turkish aid agency provides vocational equipment to women in South Sudan

Turkish aid agency provides vocational equipment to women in South Sudan

Joyous to have completed training and learned skills, Joyce Nyoka says ‘we have moved from darkness to bright future’

By Benjamin Takpiny

JUBA, South Sudan (AA) – After a five-month vocational training program, a Turkish state-run aid agency on Thursday provided professional equipment to women in South Sudan to help them earn a living.

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) supplied the stuff for women to start their own businesses after five-month vocational training in tailoring and soap making.

Seventy-eight women graduated on Thursday after they received training under the TIKA project called Empowering Women through Livelihood Skills.

The project, launched in April, was conducted in collaboration with Women for Change, a women-led nongovernmental organization.

Addressing the graduation ceremony, Cafer Besli, TIKA program coordinator in South Sudan, said the Turkish humanitarian aid agency supplied women with start-up kits consisting of soap making ingredients and sewing machines for them to afford themselves and dependents.

“TIKA has also collaborated with other stakeholders on various projects in the agricultural sector, vocational training, educational sector, livelihoods programs among others,” he added.

Erdem Mutaf, Türkiye's ambassador to South Sudan, said it is their priority to support women and children in the landlocked East African country.

“Women will not only support their families with their skills but become employers to help other people,” he said.

“Our support has been on different parts of the society – women, children, elders, farmers as well as official institutions. In addition to political and economic issues, we are active in humanitarian, disaster management and capacity building fields,” Mutaf added.


- ‘From darkness to bright future’

Joyce Nyoka, a beneficiary of the project, said they have learned a lot of during the training and are ready to enter the market with the skills they have acquired.

“When we came, we did not know anything but now we have known something, we can sow clothes, which mean we have moved from darkness to bright future.”

She urged the women not to go and sit idle but to use the skills to empower the society.

Christen Mario, who have been trained on soap making, said that the training will change their lives as they are now able to make quantity soap.

Anna Tazita Samuel, executive director of Women for Change, thanked the Turkish government for supporting the vulnerable women in South Sudan.

“We could train 78 women with support from TIKA and I believe that the skills they acquired from this training will change their lives. Training women mean you train the society, and it is going to have a very big impact in the community,” she said.

Bullen Amos, minister of gender, child and social welfare in Central Equatoria state, said that the skills women learned will change their lives for good as they will able to generate income for themselves.

“I really appreciate the Turkish government for the support, what you have done is something big for training these women, it is good to give somebody skills then to give ready things.”

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