No fewer than 60 women have been trained in fashion design and given free sewing machines each as part of a training programme organised by Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, South West 4, Akure, Ondo State.
One of the beneficiaries, a single mother in Akure, Onyinye Onu, noted that she had always desired to become a fashion designer but could not due to a lack of finances.
The 30-year-old said her dream became a reality when she learned of a free eight-month fashion training organised by the MFM, South West 4 Regional Headquarters, Akure.
Onu was one of 60 women who were trained in fashion designing and given free individual sewing machines and startup capital to kick-start their businesses.
Speaking at the graduation event organised by the church for the trainees recently, she said, “My desire to be a fashion designer would not have come to the limelight because I didn’t have the money to pay for an apprenticeship.
“But when I heard of the free eight-month training in fashion designing which was open to women within and outside MFM Akure Mega Axis, I took advantage of it and today, my dream of becoming a fashion designer has come true.”
Another beneficiary, Mrs Bolanle Mercy, expressed her
happiness as she had always had the goal to learn sewing and also own a fashion
home.
In his remarks, the Regional Overseer of MFM Ondo State Mega Region 1, SW 4, Akure, Pastor Ademola Adeniyi, stated that the training programme is the vision conceived by the General Overseer of MFM ministries, Dr Daniel Olukoya, to economically empower people.
Adeniyi stated, “Our father-in-the-Lord directed that all MFM churches must impact positively on the lives of members and their host communities through explosive evangelism initiatives not only by preaching to them and running deliverance programmes but also empowering them.
“Through these skills, we can ensure that they have a source of livelihood that can put food on their tables and they become better than the way they came. The church has established different empowerment programmes including training, teachings and enlightenment to ameliorate the sufferings of the masses and take them out of poverty and hunger as well as other myriad problems bedevilling the nation.”
The cleric added that the MFM does not just meet people’s physical, health and emotional needs as part of its Corporate Social Responsibilities and evangelism initiative strategies.
“The church has distributed food items, over 500 exercise
books to students at the resumption of a new academic session, given out
provisions and toiletries to 800 households to mark Dr Olukoya’s birthday, and
organised free medical outreaches for the public.
“As part of the efforts to bring succour to the downtrodden in
the society, the church has also offered cash gifts and free skill acquisition
to the widowed, the women and the youth at large as well as engaging the youths
through sporting activities.
“We have also held programmes to bring women out of
depression and emotional stress and trauma, entrepreneurial seminars and ICT
teachings, training for youths to make them develop their skills and be fit to
combat 21st-century challenges especially the challenge of unemployment,” he
added.
Also speaking, an instructor in the programme, a fashion
design specialist, Pastor (Mrs) Olufunmilayo Oluwalonimi, noted that the
training and the lives it impacted gave her utmost joy.
“Since I have been training women and empowering them and through prayers, I have been able to take some of them out of depression. Many women have discovered their purpose for living and they are working to achieve it,” she said.
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