By- John Babo
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is doing impressively well in Sierra Leone towards improving Entrepreneurship knowledge and self-reliant confidence and practices in Sierra Leoneans especially the women that were trained by the opportunity of the GET-Ahead training of Trainers workshops held in various districts across the country.
According to the Africa24 recent report, one of the GET-Ahead Trainers in Kenema District, Mrs. Victoria Bockarie, the Eastern Regional Coordinator of Everybody Must Farm (EMF), who benefitted from the five days GET-Ahead Training Workshop held in IDA compound in the conference room of The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS) from 30th January, 2023 to 3rd February, 2023, has excelled by organizing hundreds of young people, especially women that are presently engaged in farming activities of Vegetables and Cassava in that part of the country.
Speaking to the Africa24 newspaper, Victoria Bockarie said the GET-Ahead training exercises facilitated by ILO GET-Ahead Trainers, Samuel Kenneh Jr. and James Solomon Koroma, has made tremendous impact in her Entrepreneurship knowledge and interactions with community residents, adding that she is now engaged on transforming the lives of the farmers by organizing them into groups to respect unity for sustainable development.
She continued that has brought together the community people of Everybody Must Farm (EMF) and has organized a democratic farmers election that has achieved an executive staff that shall be responsible to make effective farming activities about Vegetables and Cassava in that part of the country.
However, the monitoring power of this media house was able to capture an activity were Victoria Bockarie led the EMF farmers into their Headquarter offices of The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security and, she requested for support while presenting the newly elected Executive of the Vegetables and Cassava Farmers of Everybody Must Farm Organization to Philip Conteh, the District Agriculture Officer for the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security in Kenema District.
“I will continue to engage the public especially women so that we will inspire into decent jobs through agriculture in Sierra Leone”, The EMF Regional Coordinator stated.
She added that the intervention of the ILO has a unique approach and will make sustainable impacts on the lives and livelihood of people especially the women, if they take it serious.