To alleviate poverty, a community forest here has conducted skill-based training for its consumers.
The Maulakali Community Forest in Gaidakot-1 of Nawalparasi (east of Bardaghat-Susta) has started teaching skills to local women. One has started imparting handicraft training to 17 women from Friday under the Women Empowerment Program. Inaugurating the seven-day training on Friday, Gaindakot Municipality Chief Chhatra Raj Poudel urged to become entrepreneurial and self-employed. He said that after the construction of cable car in this place, the number of domestic tourists would increase and the market for handicrafts would also increase.
Chairman of the Community Forest, Hari Prasad Sapkota, said that the skill-based program would be continued as women were self-employed and self-reliant from the past programs.
Women Empowerment Committee Coordinator Indira Sharma informed that Community Forest would coordinate the marketing of the products produced by the participants. Chief of the Subdivision Forest Office, Surya Singh Gurung, stressed on the need to move ahead with the women empowerment program from the budget of the forest development program. Participants suggested turning the opportunity into entrepreneurship.
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