A five-day professional goat and poultry farming training program for targeted women of Ward No. 4, Kushma Municipality, concluded on Sunday in Kushma. The program was conducted under the Presidential Women Upliftment Livelihood Improvement Program as part of the Entrepreneurship and Skills Development Training organized by Frontline Nepal Entrepreneurship and Development Foundation, Parbat, with financial support and coordination from Kushma Municipality.
A total of 25 women — single persons, persons with disabilities, and those from disadvantaged groups — selected by Ward No. 4 of Kushma Municipality participated in the training. Seven expert facilitators specializing in goat farming, poultry farming, animal health, entrepreneurship, marketing, and financial literacy conducted sessions over the five-day training.
After the training, each participant will receive a seed grant of NPR 26,000. The ward office and the organizing institution have adopted a monitoring method to ensure the proper utilization of the seed capital so that all participants become professional entrepreneurs, informed Mr. Shiv Prasad Sharma, Program Director of the institution.
The training was inaugurated in a formal session where the Chief Guest was Mr. Ramchandra Joshi, Mayor of Kushma Municipality. Speaking on the occasion, he urged women to become entrepreneurial, expressing that the program would inspire them to pursue entrepreneurship.
Deputy Mayor Swasthani Rizal highlighted that this entrepreneurship and skills development training program, initiated during the tenure of former President Bidya Devi Bhandari and focused on women, has significantly contributed to making women self-reliant and economically empowered.
Ms. Chetkumari Sharma, Chief of the Women and Children Section of Kushma Municipality, stated that the Presidential Women Upliftment Livelihood Program aims to empower and economically strengthen targeted women. The program was chaired by Ms. Manju Kumari Sharma, Acting-President of the organizing institution, and conducted by its secretary, Ms. Sanju Kumari Sharma.
