Akure Outreach Provides Business Tools to Women and Education Support for 20 Children

A community support programme organised by Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries in Akure has combined livelihood assistance for women with educational support for children from financially disadvantaged backgrounds.

The initiative was carried out by MFM Ondo Mega Region 1, Southwest 4, at Adesuper in Akure. Ten women who had completed free fashion-design training received sewing machines to help them put their skills to commercial use. Widows were also presented with grinding machines to support small-scale income-generating activities, although the source did not state how many widows received the equipment.

Education support formed another part of the programme. Twenty pupils identified by the organisers as indigent received scholarships to attend Mountain Top Nursery and Primary School in Akure. The assistance was presented as a way of reducing the financial burden on families while helping the children remain in school.

Mega Regional Overseer Pastor Ademola Adeniyi said the church's resource centre had previously trained more than 100 women, teenagers and young people in fashion design at no cost. He added that sewing machines had also been provided to some participants so that the skills acquired during training could be converted into business opportunities.

Adeniyi encouraged the latest beneficiaries to make productive use of the equipment and urged members of the community to support their businesses through patronage. He said the broader objective of the programme was to help participants develop sustainable sources of income rather than depend solely on continued assistance.

The regional overseer also credited MFM General Overseer Daniel Kolawole Olukoya and Folashade Olukoya with supporting humanitarian and empowerment activities within the ministry. According to the organisers, such interventions have included vocational development, financial assistance, education support and activities for young people.

Recipients of the business equipment said the intervention would help them apply their training more practically and improve their earning capacity. Parents and scholarship beneficiaries also expressed appreciation for the education support and the relief it could provide with school-related expenses.

The Akure programme therefore brought together two forms of assistance: tools intended to support small businesses and scholarships designed to keep children in education. The source report did not provide monetary values for the scholarships or the donated equipment.