By Sani Idris
The Women Initiative for Sustainable Environment (WISE), an NGO, has educated women in Kaduna on financial literacy and leveraging on climate challenges to boost green entrepreneurship.
At a one-day symposium on financial literacy on Saturday in Kaduna, the Executive Director of WISE, Mrs Olanike Olugboji-Daramola, said a lot of things making up the economy is gotten from the environment.
The theme of the symposium was: “Boosting green entrepreneurship and sustainable livelihood for women and girls.”
Olugboji-Daramola lamented that over the years, man had abused the use of natural resources, thereby not moving in harmony with nature, while noting that current trends related to climate change had taken a toll.
“When COVID-19 came, a lot of people lost their means of livelihood and now with the climate change; when you look at people in agriculture and its value chain, they are also losing,” she said.
She, therefore, said the symposium was aimed at building…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
