UNFPA empowers 100 survivors of VVF with vocational skills in Sokoto

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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has trained 100 survivors of vesico vaginal fistula (VVF) on vocational skills in Sokoto state. NAN reports that the training was a collaboration between

The United Nations Population Fund has trained 100 survivors of vesico vaginal fistula on vocational skills in Sokoto state.The VVF survivors were empowered with start-up tools such as poultry business equipment, cartons of chicks and bags of feed as well as local fan-making items to improve their living conditions in society.

Commenting on the life of fistula patients after treatment, Aisha Dantsoho, permanent secretary at the ministry of women affairs in Sokoto, said many survivors have engaged in businesses that helped them in funding the marriages of their children.Advertisement Lawal said the condition can be treated, adding that “ there is hope for every VVF, including the inoperable cases which needed specialist attention”.

 

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