In a bold step to professionalize and empower care work in Cross River State, UN Women, in partnership with Caring Africa, Caring Block, and Baby Lounge, has launched a high-impact training for care entrepreneurs including nannies, housekeepers, and elderly caregivers.
The Cross River Care Entrepreneurs training, which is ongoing in Cross River State, is being facilitated by Utibe-Abasi Orok Bassey-Duke, the Special Assistant to the Governor on Gender Mainstreaming, whose leadership and coordination brought this groundbreaking initiative to the state.
The program aims to equip participants with vital knowledge and skills on safety, financial security, healthcare access, and the overall importance and dignity of care work focusing on those who provide essential services in homes and communities, such as nannies, house-helps, and those who care for the elderly.
Speaking during the training session, Blessing Oyeleye, CEO of Caring Africa and Caring Block, expressed her commitment to creating a safer, more sustainable care economy by training and supporting frontline care providers.
Onyeleye, stressed on the part of challenges caregivers and entrepreneurs face during service rendering, giving opportunities to attendees to say out their thoughts and experiences
Also present was Mrs. Itoro, CEO of Baby Lounge, who served as one of the lead trainers. She emphasized the need to treat domestic and elderly care as a structured, respected profession that deserves institutional support and worker protection.
Mrs. Itoro who illustrated the importance of controlling attitudes as a care entrepreneurs, consistency in pursuing success and having value for what you do or act as a care entrepreneurs. She urge the entrepreneurs to look at themselves and environment
Participants are expected to leave the program better informed, more confident, and equipped with practical tools to enhance the quality of care they provide while also safeguarding their own wellbeing and rights.
This initiative marks another significant step forward in gender-focused governance and the development of the care economy in Cross River State.
