In a bid to pull Bayelsa women out of poverty, a non-governmental organisation, known as Center for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD), at the week encouraged the women to get themselves empowered financially in order to fulfil their motherly roles as home builders.
This charged was given to the participants of an empowerment summit organised by the NGO for women cooperatives in the state.
landscape of Bayelsa State into that of economic prosperity.
CEHRD, stated that the local economy was being driven by women adding that the essence of the summit was to enable the women key into some existing empowerment programmes that exists.