ANTIGUA-DEVELOPMENT-European Union provides funding for project involving women

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The European union is providing EC$1.3 million (One EC dollar = US$0.27 cents) to the Gilbert Agricultural and Rural Development Centre (GARD) for a project aimed at enhancing the income generating opportunities of vulnerable young women in Antigua and Barbuda. GARD said the Empowerment of Young Women in Antigua and Barbuda in their Income Generation (YWEP) project will have a two year life span and will target over 200 vulnerable young women who are unemployed or underemployed. “Many of these women have not completed secondary school and will be provided with much needed vocational and entrepreneurial training allowing them the ability to better source jobs or set up their own enterprises,” said GARD executive director Roberta Williams.