SightSavers' Strengthening Access to Business Education and Inclusion (SABI) Woman project, has empowered 70 Lagos women with disabilities with a N4.7 million seed grant to start their own businesses.

The project in partnership with Unilever Nigeria Plc and Growing Businesses Foundation (GBF) and aimed at encouraging entrepreneurship, boosting employability, and advocating inclusion in the country's financial sector.

Speaking at the event, Programme Officer, Girls Educational Skills Partnership/SABI Woman, SightSavers, Anita Kevin, said that the project was geared towards developing the business skills of women with disabilities.

Kevin said that the NGO was supporting each of the beneficiaries with Unilever products worth 60,000, totaling N4.7 million, under the SHAKTI programme of Unilever.

According to her, "We planned to train 100 women with disabilities in Lagos, and we have reached the 100, but having screened them, we got 70 who are ready to have access to the business skills. We are giving each of the 70 women a business basket worth N60,000 to start a business or add it to their existing businesses," she said.

For the Project Manager, SHAKTI Initiative of Unilever, Mr. Ehis Goodluck, the programme was meant for women living in the rural and suburban communities.

Also, the Project Manager, GBF, Mr. Jubril Yusuf, said that the foundation, as an implementing partner of the project, would ensure that it is implemented successfully.