Osun State Government empowers 5,000 women in Soap making

 

   Osun state government has engaged 5,000 women in local soap production with a view to empowering them and connecting them to the international markets.

   The programme, conceived in partnership with Kasmo Industries, an indigenous soap making company in Osogbo.
  According to facilitator of the programme, Rufus Idris, the 5,000 women supply black soap which serves as raw material for the local production of over 6 million bar soaps for the first phase in the growing Kasmo Soap business.

  He said the state government, through GEMS4, a DFID-fund programme, will link expanding market for unique wholesale and retail products from Osun into larger local and international markets.

  The State government, however, reiterated its readiness to track the programme's impact in the lives of itinerant women local soap makers in