THE Pastors’ Wife Welfare Organisation International (PWWOI) a faith based organisation, has offered to train 200 people in sustainable entrepreneurship skills in Rivers.

Pastor Celestine Aneke, the President/Visionary Leader of the organisation disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt.

According to Aneke, the trainees will be engaged in agro-entrepreneurship and other skills acquisition programme in June.

“The training is slated for Port Harcourt and will mostly involve pastors’ wives, female ministers and church workers.

“Widows and orphans of pastors and retired pastors are also expected to benefit from the programme which is part of our 2019 project,” he said.

He said the group’s project would ensure that beneficiaries acquire sustainable skills in addition to church work irrespective of denominations or ministries.

“The trainees will be in various skills’ group including snails, fish, poultry farming, crop production, farm management, exercise book production, how to write a book and T-shirt branding.

“They will also get training on bread, cake, and dough baking, chin-chin, puff-puff making, weave-on oil production, perfume production, gele-tying, make-up and tie and dye.

“A general class in business financing, customer management, how to do NAFDAC product registration as well as business name registration at Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) will also be offered to the trainees,” he said.

He said the organisation would be pleased to partner with interested corporate bodies and good spirited individuals on the project.

According to him, the group’s vision includes having a united and caring pastors wives and female ministers who love and care for each other irrespective of denominational or ministry difference.

“We want to have pastors’ wives and female ministers who do not lack care after their spouses have gone to be with the lord.

“Our vision is to have pastors’ wives and female ministers who are still zealous and vibrant at doing the work of the ministry after their spouses have gone to be with the lord.

“And to have pastors’ wives and female ministers who have integrity and are living by the standard of the Bible

“We are interested in having pastors’ wives and female ministers who are prosperous in their personal life endeavours and so on,’’ Aneke said.

According to him, pastors’ wives are relegated to the background and their welfare not considered a duty in various denominations irrespective of their labour and restlessness in the body of Christ.

“Their husbands are always taken away for functions, their kitchens and refrigerators invaded by church members.

“Their marriages are threatened and their privacy taken away from them, no adequate medical care during health challenges especially those in the rural areas, abandoned on retirement or when their spouses are no more,’’ he said. (NAN)

– Apr. 1, 2019 @ 9:49 GMT |