Tripoint Travels Tackle Youth Unemployment Through Internship Programme

Tripoint Travels is acceptable to tackle younker unemployment, unemployability and underemployment done its internship programme.

Through its recently launched Tripoint Academy Internship Programme, the organisation is pioneering a exemplary that trains young Nigerians to beryllium genuinely employable portion offering them existent occupation opportunities.

The archetypal cohort of the six-month programme graduated this play successful Lagos. Three of the 7 interns person already been offered jobs astatine Tripoint Travels, portion spouse organisations are considering others.

Managing manager of Tripoint Travels and laminitis of Tripoint Academy, Shuhda Muhammed, described the programme arsenic a prototype designed to beryllium that Nigerian Youths tin go assets to immoderate manufacture erstwhile fixed the close skills and guidance.

“I came to the realisation, being an entrepreneur myself and moving Tripoint Travels, that we request to person bully employees. What that means is, we request intrapreneurs successful our organisations for america to beryllium capable to grow, standard up and thrive successful immoderate industry. And 1 of the challenges we’ve been facing arsenic entrepreneurs is employment, employability, due to the fact that astir of the youths retired determination are already educated,” she said.

The MD of Tripoint Travels has referred to this programme arsenic much than an internship – but arsenic the commencement of a movement. Mrs Muhammed hopes to spot much organisations follow this exemplary and has urged them to turn talents to turn a workforce of employable young Nigerians who are acceptable to stay, enactment and thrive successful Nigeria.

The Tripoint Academy Internship Programme combines hands-on concern grooming with idiosyncratic development, designed to crook graduates into Intrapreneurs who bring creativity, work and maturation mindsets into the workplace.

The managing manager of the Global Entrepreneurship Network (Nigeria), Dr. Olawale Anifowose, praised Tripoint’s bold step, saying, “Tripoint Travels has confronted 1 of the biggest challenges businesses face, which is endowment absorption and uncovering the close radical to enactment wrong their company. By equipping young radical with applicable skills, they are mounting an illustration different organisations should follow”.

One of the graduates, Taiwo Fapohunda, echoed the interaction of the programme, saying,“ It has been an eye-opener that has shifted maine to go a amended person. With the skills and assurance I person gained, I cognize I tin turn and lend meaningfully successful the satellite of aviation and beyond”

Tripoint Travels is calling connected entrepreneurs, organisations and institutions to replicate this model, standard it up and assistance curb unemployment crossed the country.

“This is conscionable the beginning. This is the archetypal trial, and it came retired amazing. We’ve shown that it tin work, present ideate the interaction connected the system if a greater fig of organisations crossed Nigeria tin follow this approach.