An NGO, Global Trust Foundation, has trained 55 youths on vocational skills in Osun to reduce poverty and unemployment in the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the youth were trained for six months on how to make soap, shoes, hand sanitiser, cake, interior decoration and barbing, among others.
NAN also reports that the trainees were given working tools, such as electronic clippers, sewing machines, cake oven and hair dryers, among others.
The Convener and President of the foundation, Prof. Richard Idowu, said during the programme in Ejigbo, Ejigbo Local Government Area of the state, that the training was aimed at bringing out the potentials for wealth creation embedded in the youth.
Idowu, a professor of Mathematics at Prairie View A&B University in United States of America, said that the beneficiaries were carefully selected, based on their potentials and capabilities.
He said, “They were all trained for a period of six months on various skill acquisitions in order to develop and bring out the potentials in them.
“I believe that with this training, the rate of poverty and unemployment within Ejigbo and its environs will be reduced to the barest minimum”.
Idowu said that the foundation had concluded plan to extend the same gesture to other local government areas to train youths on vocational skills.
“We intend to visit Ede North, Ede South and Egbedore local government areas to empower youths on vocational skills.
Idowu said that relief packages were also given to the people in the town during the COVID-19 lockdown.
In his remarks, Mr Najeem Salaam, a former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, thanked the convener for providing means livelihood for the beneficiaries.
Salaam urged the beneficiaries to make judicious use of the training and equipment given to them to create wealth and job opportunities for others. (NAN)
