The Lagos State Government has said the National Social Intervention Programme of the Federal Government has empowered youths, marginalised women and children living with disabilities across the state.
The Commissioner for Wealth Creation and Employment, Mrs Yetunde Arobieke, said this in a statement on Sunday.
Arobieke, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mr Olujimi Ige, said this during the sensitisation meeting on the new restructured Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme in Lagos State, held in Alausa, Ikeja.
She said, “The new restructured GEEP 2.0 in Lagos State is under the National Social Investment Programme of the Federal Government, and in the last four years, it has provided incremental loans of between N10,000 and N300,000 to about 2.3 million beneficiaries who are traders, artisans, enterprising youths, agricultural workers and other micro-service providers under its flagship programmes – TraderMoni, MarketMoni and FarmerMoni.
“TraderMoni is specifically designed to empower youths that have right to education, orphans, abandoned out-of-school children and those with disability, while MarketMoni is designed to empower underprivileged and marginalised women in society and lift them out of poverty.”
Arobieke added that the restructured scheme would be supervised at the federal, local and state levels.
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