Lagos — "With this project poverty would be tackled headlong, and women and youths will be empowered to face the challenges of unemployment in the state and the nation at large." These were the words of the Nigerian First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, who was commending the wife of the Governor of Plateau State, Mrs. Ngo Talatu Jang, while inaugurating the Women in Agriculture and Youth Empowerment (WAYE) Foundation project executed by her to better the lot of the Plateau women and youth.
Most often people take too lightly the impact a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear or an honest complement or the smallest act of caring would make on the lives of the people. Little do people know that all of these have the potential to turn a life around. That is the gap WAYE has come to fill and even go beyond it.
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