Worizeni Women Farmers Get Textile Weaving Centre

Tamale, Aug. 20, - Oasis, a Japanese non-governmental organisation (NGO), today handed over a textile weaving centre it built at a cost of 12 million cedis to a jubilant Worizeni women farmers and marketing group in Tamale. When Mr Max Watanabe, president of Oasis, cut the tape to commission the centre comprising a workshop, offices and a store, the group joined members of the community in traditional drumming and dancing. The workshop is equipped with sewing and weaving machines donated by Oasis and a Japanese philanthropist, Mr Faruichi Shingo. Mr Watanabe spoke of plans to provide the group with a vocational training centre as a further proof of the bond of friendship between Japan and Ghana. Mr Adam Suhuyini, the co-ordinator, said the group is made up of women entrepreneurs engaged in cotton spinning, textile weaving, dressmaking and soya bean farmers. He said it was established in 1989 to improve the living standards of its members. He appealed to Oasis to assist the group to establish an agro- forestry nursery and a food processing and trading venture. Mrs Fati Jawula, a member of the Council of State who presided, commended the Japanese NGO and said the factory would help improve the quality of life of disadvantaged women in the society.