As part of its efforts to key into the State Government's youth development scheme, the Egbema Gbaramatu Communities Development Foundation, EGCDF has presented free start-up packs to 108 youths who acquired various skills in capacity building training with durations ranging from six to twelve months.
The skills acquisition training and the start-up packs were to empower the beneficiaries towards becoming self-reliant entrepreneurs who would in turn employ and train others with the aim of eradicating poverty in Egbema and Gbaramatu kingdoms.
The benefitting youths drawn from Egbema and Gbaramatu kingdoms, were trained in carpentry, aluminum window and door fabrication, fashion designing and tailoring, photography and video production, electrical installations, GSM engineering, make-up artistry, paint and soap making, as well as agripreneurship.
Addressing the youths before the presentation, the Chairman of EGCDF, Comrade Jude Ukori said the various skills they acquired through the training would launch them into greater economic opportunities, as well as make them compete favourably in the local and international business environments.
Comrade Ukori noted that the start-up packs would enable the trained youths start off viable and sustainable ventures that would generate incomes for their livelihood.
He therefore strongly advised the youths not to destroy their future by selling the empowerment packages but rather use the items to start their own businesses, earn a living and transform their lives.
He implored the soap and paint making as well as agripreneurship trainees to be patient as plans were on to set up a dependable business enterprise where their products would be branded to meet global standards.
Comrade Ukori thanked his team members for their commitment, and the NNPC/Chevron joint venture for powering the training scheme.
He then appealed to residents of the two kingdoms to shun pipeline vandalism and illegal oil bunkering so that there would be more money to train and empower more youths through the EGCDF skills acquisition training programme.
Some of the benefitting youths appreciated the EGCDF officials and the joint venture partners for the training and start-up packs which they all promised not to sell but to utilize in bettering their lives.
CNL Team Lead for EGCDF, Emmanuel Emeribe commended Comrade Ukori and his team for a job well done, and the trained youths for peacefully conducting themselves during the training period.
Highpoint of the event was the presentation of the start-up packs to the benefitting youths, who were enjoined to strictly adhere to all health precautionary measures towards curbing the spread of coronavirus in the two kingdoms.
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