Ending lasting problems like poverty means realizing individual potentials of the people on earth and how much they could be worth if given a chance, and this begins with women empowerment. Like many African women, Nigerian women have a subordinate role to their male counterparts. The United Nations, has proposed women empowerment as a tool to eradicate gender inequality as depicted in the Sustainable Development Goals, and reduce women vulnerability and dependency in all spheres of life.

MotherAid rural community skills acquisition project aim to train and empower disadvantaged women across Nigeria, some of which include: Widows , Rape victim, house wives,single mothers, child bearing mothers and vulnerable women/girls
The training is for self-employmen, building self esteem and confidence and financial freedom… Participants are trained for a maximum period of 3 months to enable them acquire a vocational skill in different skills like Catering, Fashion designing make up, tie and dye, bag / shoes making, Hairdressing, soaps / cream making, and liquids ..the women and girls attend workshops and trainings and upon graduation were they are given equipment such as Ovens/Stoves, Dryers, Sewing machines etc with certificate to enable them start off a small scale business. The graduates are thereafter monitored regularly via visits to locations as well as follow-up seminars at the training centre by MotherAid support team.