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From George Onyejiuwa, Owerri
A non governmental organisation, HopeRising For Imolites Foundation is partnering with Pato Binto Entrepreneurial and Skills Acquisition Company for the training of 200 women and youths across the 27 local government areas of Imo State in skills acquisition.
The Director of Project of Pato Binto Entrepreneurial and Skills Acquisition Company, Muhammed Saheeb, said the company has been into training youths and women to become job creators rather than job seekers in the state.
“This initiative is meant for the youths and women across the state. The programme features six critical departments designed to equip participants with practical, marketable, and income-generating skills”, he said.
He noted that the training will cover makeup artistry, where participants, particularly women and young girls, would receive training in professional makeup techniques, an industry, he said, that continues to provide substantial business opportunities and financial rewards; event decoration that will expose participants to event decoration and management, a thriving sector within the event planning industry that offers significant income opportunities; catering and pastry production that provides trainees with knowledge on the preparation of pastries, snacks, and various African dishes, equipping them with skills for both employment and entrepreneurship.
Saheed pointed out that participants will also be exposed to how to prepare household chemicals such as detergents, liquid soaps, disinfectants, and other cleaning agents for personal use and commercial purposes, among other skills.
“The theoretical aspect of the programme focuses on entrepreneurship education, business management, and enterprise development. Entrepreneurship education has become a major vehicle for nation-building. No nation can thrive without entrepreneurs”.
Earlier, speaking during the flag-off of the two weeks training programme, the National President of the HopeRising for Imolite Foundation, Engr Success Akagburuonye, noted that the essence of the two weeks training on various levels of skills acquisition was to cushion the effect of economic imbalance in the country.
He called on the participants to make effective use of the training to enable them to become self dependent. “People embezzle money when they do not have projects to spend money on, they will line their pockets and use it to buy your conscience and your vote, pay you to work against your interest and leave you regretting in your old age or when your boss leaves office. But if you take this opportunity seriously, go to your village, start something now to earn a living”, he advised the participants.
