The Women’s Desk Programme Officer of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana (EPCG), Reverend Elizabeth Niboe-Wuasi, has called on churches to invest in women as a crucial step to address the high unemployment rates in the country.
She said young women were the future in any church and must therefore be given every assistance to allow them to stay in the church.
Rev. Elizabeth Niboe-Wuasi was speaking at the end of a two-day annual national conference of the young ladies of the E. P. Church, Ghana at Hohoe in the Volta Region last Sunday.
The conference, being the fifth edition, was attended by 60 participants selected throughout the country and was themed “Care For Creation; The Role of EPCG Young Ladies, The Task of the Church”.
To make them self-employable, the EPCG would teach them income-generating skills such as soap making, wreath making, beadwork among others to improve their livelihoods.
Empowerment
She said the EPCG has been organising such annual conferences to empower young women in ventures to become self-employed, to gain self-confidence and stop them from seeking to be employed.
Rev. Niboe-Wuasi noted that some young women were leaving their churches due to unemployment and were enticed into other churches through deceptive doctrines.
“We are here to let the young ladies know what to do since they are the future leaders of the church”, she said
The National President of the Women’s Ministry of the EPCG, Marian Adzroe, called on the young ladies to maintain personal hygiene, saying it was non-negotiable and therefore condemned self-bleaching.
The Moderator of the Hohoe Central Presbytery, EPCG, Rev. Albert Kwasi Addae, said the programme would soon be decentralised to ensure greater participation so that more young women could remain in the church.
He said when this was done, they would become trainer of trainers so they can extend the skills and knowledge acquired to others who were not present.
