The wife of Zamfara state governor, Hajiya Huriyya Dauda Lawal, has distributed cash grant to 100 women under the unconditional women empowerment cash grant programme.
Launching the distribution of the programm held at JB Yakubu state Secretariat in Gusau, Wednesday, the first Lady announced that under the programme, 100 women were categorize into two segments where some will be given N300,000, each while the second segment will get N500,000 Naira each respectively.
According to her, the gesture will be sustained in order to ensure everyone has been carried alone among vulnerable women, women groups, women politicians and elderly women.
According to her, the aim of the programme was to engage women in small scale business while at their matrimonial homes particularly at grassroots level for their betterment.
She urged the beneficiaries to make use of the money given to them appropriately for better future.
She added that her office will remain committed to work hand in with her husband to find more initiatives that could touch the life of the citizens particularly vulnerable women and children in the state.
“I will continue working hand in hand with the office of my husband as governor of the state as well as all the relevant development partners in order to find more initiatives that could have direct impact to the women and children in the state,” she said.