By Neo Kolane
Sixty women trainees received certificates from Women First Self-Help Program Lesotho after taking part in an eight-month training programme in beauty culture, spa therapy, artisan and jewellery design in Maseru yesterday.
Women First Self-Help Program Lesotho is a business and technical skills development program, for women between the ages of 18 to 35.
The goal of the programme was to organize business trainings and skills development incubation where 200 female beneficiaries learned different business skills including practical skills which they can use to start businesses.
Of the 60, four ladies who were winners walked away with spa equipment worth M2,500 to further their businesses, namely massage bed, selfie-lamps, UV lights, facial steamer and mirrors.
Speaking with theReporter, the programme manager at Women First Self-Help Program Lesotho, Teboho Seboka, said the trainees were taught about confidence building, design thinking, marketing and customer care, business planning and financial management.
Seboka stated that all the equipment used during the training was given away.
“We were lucky that the people who were facilitators during the practicals were already well equipped so they had bought the equipment for people who want to start their businesses. The four ladies we selected are people who were already practising but didn’t have equipment.”
