The Nigeria Community Action for Resilience and Economic Stimulus (NGCARES) Lagos State Livelihood Support Delivery Platform (1.3) has empowered about five thousand vulnerable persons in five council areas of Lagos State.
  
The empowerment, which was done in collaboration with the Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, WAPA, was set up by the Federal Government to assist indigent persons across the country.
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The empowerment programme was held in five centres across the state namely Alimosho, Somolu, Badagry, Ibeju Lekki, and Ojo.

Grants were distributed to all 5,000 beneficiaries, marking a significant milestone in the ongoing efforts to provide sustainable support to vulnerable individuals across Lagos State.
  
Speaking at the event held at the Women Development Centre, Agege, the Head of the Livelihood Delivery Platform, Lagos Cares, Toyin Salami, said the empowerment programme is to eradicate poverty, as well as strengthen small and medium enterprises which is the bedrock of the country’s economy.
  
Salami noted that the previous editions have impacted over three thousand beneficiaries and the ongoing edition is targeted at five thousand beneficiaries, with about three thousand, three hundred trained on day-one of the event.
  
On her part, the Facilitator, Bukky Femi-Ajala, explained that the beneficiaries were trained in business management skills, bookkeeping, and other managerial skills for a thriving business enterprise. “They have to be empowered in terms of business management skills such as how to keep books, expand my businesses and manage the given grant.”
  
One of the beneficiaries, Aratu Bamidele-Ige, a person with challenge and pastry vendor from Ojokoro in Ifako-Ijaye Local Government Area, hinted at incorporating the training she has acquired into her business and also reinvesting her capital into her business for growth.
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