The Federal Government, through the office of the Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Capacity Development, Alh Sadiq Rabiu in collaboration with Reality Youth for Good Leadership and Support Initiative, a Non-Governmental Organization are set to train 1,000 Nigerian youth on shoe making and maintenance.
The Deputy Executive Director of the Non-Governmental Organization, Engr. Musa Idi, who disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Bauchi on Friday, said the training will be conducted within two days.
According to him, all plans to embark on the empowerment programme of the 1,000 unemployed youth had been concluded and the date for the commencement of the training will soon be communicated.
He explained that the NGO’s aim, which is to empower Nigeria youth, promote good governance, encourage community engagement and awareness campaigns and help in building leadership skills, conform with the renewed hope agenda of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
This, he said, arouse the interest of the Office of the Special Assistant to the President on Capacity Development to work with the NGO and has agreed to support the training financially.
“He has agreed to partner with us, sponsor the training and said that we should go ahead with it.
“The essence of the training is to empower the beneficiaries with the skill so as to be able to fend for themselves and even become employers of labour.
“They will be effectively trained and at the same time, they will be given shoe maintenance kits to also ease their trade,” he said.
Idi further explained that the beneficiaries would be drawn from Northwest sub region in the first phase of the programme, adding that it would be extended to other regions of the federation after the launching of the first phase.
He also explained that community leaders and other political stakeholders would play a pivotal role in selecting the beneficiaries which would be spread across the seven Northwestern states of Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Jigawa, Sokoto, and Zamfara.
He, however appealed to government at all levels and other well meaning Nigerians to take up the task of empwering the less privileged in partnership with development partners and Non-Governmental organizations in the country.
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