Group, French Embassy, Empower 200 PWDs In Bauchi

The Girl Child Values Support Initiative (GCVSI), with enactment from the French Embassy Fund, has empowered implicit 200 young women and girls — including those with disabilities — successful Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) done the ongoing STEAMinist Against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Project successful Bauchi State.

LEADERSHIP reports that the project, which has been moving for the past 5 months, is designed to equip participants with applicable and entrepreneurial skills to marque them self-reliant and susceptible of utilizing exertion and creativity to combat gender-based unit and societal exclusion.
Speaking to journalists during the graduation ceremonial of immoderate of the students, Oluwatosin Zuriel, the Senior Programme Officer for GCVSI successful Bauchi State, explained that the STEAMinist Project was conceived to springiness young women the accidental to larn applicable integer and method skills that tin alteration their lives and communities.

According to him, the inaugural aims to situation the communicative of precocious schoolhouse dropouts among girls successful Bauchi State by providing them with entree to modern skills that tin unfastened caller occupation opportunities — adjacent remotely.

Zuriel noted that much than 500 young women and girls applied for the archetypal signifier of the programme, with implicit 150 selected for the archetypal training.

He described this arsenic impervious of Bauchi’s readiness to clasp exertion and innovation.

He expressed appreciation to the French Embassy Fund for its enactment and encouraged young women crossed Bauchi State to use for the 2nd signifier of the STEAMinist grooming done the Girl Child VSI’s authoritative societal media pages and spouse hubs.

Some of the beneficiaries of the ongoing grooming commended the Girl Child Values Support Initiative and the French Embassy Fund for giving them life-changing opportunities.

Hafsat Abdulrazaq, a 400-level Electrical and Electronics Engineering pupil astatine Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), said the grooming has helped her summation captious applicable acquisition and assurance successful her field.

Another participant, Mansura Abdulhakim, who trained successful Graphic Design, said the programme not lone nurtured her passionateness for creation but besides gave her the assurance to crook her skills into a root of income.

For Lawan Yunus Sylvanus, a pupil of Federal Polytechnic Bauchi, who majored successful Electronics Design and Implementation, the grooming bridged the spread betwixt mentation and signifier successful his world work.