{"id":66264,"date":"2025-05-22T04:17:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T04:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66264"},"modified":"2025-05-22T04:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T04:17:58","slug":"abuja-bright-obasi-gives-rural-women-hope-with-life-changing-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/22\/abuja-bright-obasi-gives-rural-women-hope-with-life-changing-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja: Bright Obasi Gives Rural Women Hope with Life-Changing Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a bid to uplift vulnerable rural women, Bright Obasi, a passionate humanitarian and founder of &#8216;The Sunbeam Foundation&#8217;, has continued to provide hope through life-changing skill acquisition programs.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a recent empowerment outreach held in a remote community in the outskirts of Abuja, Obasi emphasized the importance of equipping women with practical skills to break the cycle of poverty.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative focused on training participants in tailoring, soap making, bead crafting, and small-scale agribusiness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are here to give them tools, not just charity,\u201d Obasi said. \u201cEmpowerment goes beyond money; it\u2019s about helping people reclaim their dignity and build a future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many of the beneficiaries, some of whom were widows and single mothers, shared touching stories of how the program has opened new doors for them.<\/p>\n<p>They expressed gratitude for the opportunity to learn sustainable trades and earn incomes for their families.<\/p>\n<p>Obasi\u2019s intervention is part of a broader effort by The Sunbeam Foundation to promote self-reliance and reduce rural poverty, especially among women and youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0 In a bid to uplift vulnerable rural women, Bright Obasi, a passionate humanitarian and founder of &#8216;The Sunbeam Foundation&#8217;, has continued to provide hope through life-changing skill acquisition programs. Speaking during a recent empowerment outreach held in a remote community in the outskirts of Abuja, Obasi emphasized the importance of equipping women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66266,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66264\/revisions\/66266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}