NGO Trains 300 North-East Youths On Wealth Creation

NGO Trains 300 North-East Youths On Wealth Creation

By: Omirin Joshua

An international non-governmental organization, Plan International Nigeria, has trained 300 North-East youths on various vocational skills to enable earn a descent living.

The NGO, at the end of the six months training, also equipped the youths, comprising 197 girls and 103 boys drawn from the most-insurgency-troubled Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states, with the relevant business start-up kits to enable them create wealth.

“We have trained them on seven skills including cap knitting, Barbing, soap making, tailoring, and others,” the Programme Manager, Daniel Gambo, disclosed at the end of the training in Maiduguri.

“This will enable them to establish the various crafts they were trained on in order earn sustenance,” he said.

Gambo said the gesture is part of the NGO’s reach-out programmes aimed at creating a relationship of goodwill and cordiality between it and its communities of operation across the insurgency-battered BAY (Borno, Adamawa and Yobe) states.

“One of our core value is to create lasting impact in the community we have worked,” he said, stressing, “It is about doing something that will last.”

The programme manager expressed the hope that the beneficial would utilise the skills and tools they were equipped with not only to earn a living, but become employers of labour themselves.

He gave the breakdown of the 300 as 150 from Fika and Bade LGAs in Yobe State; 45 from Jere LGA, Borno State; and 105 from Michika LGA, Adamawa State.

NGO Trains 300 North-East Youths On Wealth Creation