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A non-governmental organisation, Item Women Empowerment Initiative (IWEI), has trained 500 youths connected skills acquisition and offered N250,000 currency grants to a prime fig successful Abia State.
The programme tagged, “Empower Youth Enterprise Programme” commenced connected Thursday with a two-day grooming by Rindelt Consulting Ltd successful Umuahia, the authorities capital.
Speaking with LEADERSHIP Weekend aft declaring the grooming open, the president and founding trustee of IWEI, Nnenna Orji said the programme was aimed astatine making the participants creators of labour.
She said, “They’ll beryllium trained successful nutrient processing and packaging, cosmetic accumulation and accumulation of household cleaning agents, and integer selling and business.
“These are trades that tin entreaty to a larger colonisation and you tin ever find a people that volition marque you comfy if you sell. That way, galore radical volition beryllium retired of poverty.
Many radical volition go little babelike connected different people.”
The ineligible practitioner further explained that astatine the extremity of the training, those selected for the assistance volition besides beryllium provided with a six-month escaped mentorship to boost their businesses.
Orji, who described herself arsenic a born-philanthropist and was giving backmost to society, noted that she had, done the NGO, touched implicit 1,500 lives some wrong and extracurricular the state.
She expressed appreciation to Afrexim Bank for sponsoring the programme and the enactment of the Herbert Onye Orji Foundation for the programme.
A participant, Mary Nkemakola, a civilian servant, described the programme arsenic precise rewarding, adding that she had agelong been looking for specified an opportunity.
”With the knowledge, I volition go much self-sustaining financially and by hold go an employment creator portion inactive being engaged,” the postgraduate of Laboratory Science added.
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