VSF-Germany Trains Jonglei Women Milk Traders On Business Management
The veterinary Sans Frontiers-Germany on Thursday launched a three-day training for women milk traders on different aspects of business management and handling of milk in Bor, the state capital of Jonglei state. 19 May 2013 By Jacob Achiek Jok BOR, 18 May 2013 [Gurtong] – The workshop aims to equip milk traders on organization, management and business skills so that they can be more efficient and perfect in conducting business. The area coordinator for Veterinary and Frontiers-Germeny, Fask Demeke has said that they are training the women in different aspects such as the business planning, business management, record keeping, marketing and costing and pricing of their products. He said that they have the types of the support for the women to be sure that the milk is hygienic, and qualify to the sanitation standards. Demeke said that they have supported the group with refrigerators, and generators so that they can keep and preserve the milk in a clean hygienic way. He said that the training was targeting only women from its three milk collection centres of Padak, Paraik and in Bor town with exclusion of the villages and cattle camps. The training was attended by more than 70 women milk traders’ in Bor county. Deborah Yuang Jokuch who is the head of the women group said that they have acquired knowledge from Veterinary Sans Frontiers-Germany after the training. She said that they usually bought milk from cattle keepers of which they were not aware of quality adding that they need the entire population of Jonglei state to be aware of dangers of unclean milk. They have appreciated the great offer from Veterinary Sans Frontiers-Germany. Participants were urged to be very cautious when preserving milk and before use. “I am calling upon women to abandon traditional methods of milk preservation and get adapted to the modern system invented,” said Mary Leek, a participant. Veterinary Sans Frontiers-Germany is an international Non-Governmental Organization working in South Sudan to promote micro-business and sanitation in sub-reliance communities. Posted in: Home, Governance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
