120 Returnees Graduate From Skills Training In Abuja

The Reintegration and Empowerment for Connecting and Nurturing Opportunities of Vulnerable Populations and Returning Migrants (RECONNECT Project) has graduated 120 participants successful Abuja, mostly Nigerian returnees from unfortunate journeys extracurricular the country.

The organisation stated that the three-month accomplishment acquisition programme is designed to marque them self-reliant and employers of labour.

Speaking astatine the graduation ceremony, state manager of ActionAid Nigeria, Andrew Mamedu, said the task is sponsored by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), German Development Cooperation (GIZ), and GOPA, successful collaboration with the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI).

According to Mamedu, the task has supported the economical and societal reintegration of susceptible groups, including returned migrants, internally displaced persons (IDPs), persons with disabilities (PWDs), and survivors of gender-based unit (GBV) done vocational grooming and concern start-up support.

He added that a full of 400 individuals crossed Abuja, Lagos, and Benin person been trained successful market-driven skills specified arsenic manner design, hairdressing, catering and edifice management, baking and confectionery, textile and adire making, and shoemaking.

“Today, we observe not lone the completion of a grooming programme for the 120 participants successful Abuja but besides the opening of caller ventures, caller livelihoods, and renewed anticipation for these Nigerians,” helium said.

Mamedu further explained: “Over the past fewer months, participants person undergone intensive hands-on grooming and entrepreneurial improvement done the Inspire, Create, Start and Scale (ICSS) module, an indispensable constituent that prepares them not lone to enactment but besides to lead, innovate, and make opportunities for others.

“The RECONNECT Project goes beyond reintegration. It embodies the combat against poorness and inequality. By strengthening the capableness of young Nigerians with applicable skills and entrepreneurial knowledge, we are contributing to tackling the structural causes of poorness and unemployment. We are gathering resilience, strengthening livelihoods, and giving radical the tools to reclaim their dignity.”

He besides called connected the national authorities to make amended conditions for young radical — conditions that foster opportunity, dignity, and hope. “No Nigerian should consciousness compelled to hazard their beingness done irregular migration successful hunt of survival. The solution lies successful empowerment, education, and inclusive development,” Mamedu said.

The national commissioner of the NCFRMI, Aliyu Tijani Ahmed, who presented certificates to the graduating returnees, urged them to stay successful the country.

“I americium definite that aft your graduation, we volition not find immoderate of you begging connected the streets due to the fact that of the grooming you person received and the starter funds provided to statesman your businesses.

“This is each astir integration and empowerment. You indispensable perpetrate to applying the skills you person learned.

“Please stay successful Nigeria. Be a portion of this country. The authorities is changing, and our mode of beingness is improving positively successful Nigeria today.”