As part of activities to mark the 2023 International Women’s Day, a non-governmental Organisation, Mumsbooth has offered free training on digital skills to women in Nigeria and across Africa to enable them create opportunities for their businesses.

The organisation said women learning basic digital skills, digital marketing or understanding how to use digital tools for marketing can go a long way to helping them grow their businesses.

Convener of Mumsbooth, Martha Tawiyah while speaking to LEADERSHIP said the objective of the training is to bring women together and create awareness on the need for access to technology, basic digital information for their businesses, which will result in creating solutions and innovations that will boost the economy.

According to her, “Women’s Day is a day we review our achievements, recognize our challenges and focus on raising awareness/promoting women’s rights and gender equality. I was delighted to see that the theme for this year is “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality.

“The IWD theme this year serves as a reminder to keep pushing, to get more women on board by having more programs that will bring women together in one space, create this awareness and give them access to these resources, to partner with more organizations that will help fund or  provide basic things like internet, phones, laptops to places with women that do not have it. Doing these actively and continuously will naturally bridge the gap and promote gender equality.

Speaking further about the training courses, she said the courses are self-paced and graded. “At the end, the women obtain a downloadable certificate from Mumsbooth, Wootlab and Microsoft, our partnering organizations. This certificate can be added to their resumes and help grow their businesses as well.”

Tawiyah further said the organisation will continue to strive to bridge the gap at ensuring that many women have access to technology as they should. “We don’t think they have enough knowledge or engage enough in learning digital skills that will help develop themselves and in turn their businesses.”