Agape hosts seminar and workshop programs to support the local community, many of these aimed at bringing to bring new skills to the rural areas.
Rural women are less privileged than their urban counterparts because of the lack of resources in rural communities and geographical isolation. Many of the seminars focus on topics that will help reduce poverty for rural women and provide better support for the families.
Seminars topics have included:
- Jatropha cultivation
- Mushroom growing
- Modern pig keeping
- Modern poultry keeping
- Entrepreneurship
- Setting up and operating a business
- HIV infection and counselling
- HIV patient care
- Women’s breast and cervical cancer
- Women’s inheritance rights
- Women’s land ownership rights
Recent workshops have involved training in the construction and maintenance of solar lamps for rural communities.
