By Victoria Amadi and Princess Okafor
Youths of Obalende South Ikoyi, Lagos State are happy with the Lagos Achievers Lions Club.
About 50 of them have received some basic entrepreneurship training organised by the club in affiliation with Lagos Achievers Leo Club.
The initiative is borne out of concern to engage 50 youths within Obalende into either of these four skills: cabinet making, graphic design, soap making and small chops.
The major idea behind the two-day project is to train youths in life skills that would make them stand out among other competitors.
The chairperson for the Lagos Achievers Lions Club, Abayomi Adetola, in an interview, said that the organisation had given an opportunity to four youths who participated in the two-day programme for financial backup covering the four businesses of the skills learnt. Four business names would be registered with FCMB. The company names would also be registered with Corporate Affairs Commission. The club is magnanimous enough to start up these accounts with (N15,000) each.
Mr. Yusuff Adeniji, the programme facilitator said: “Your business is your life. It is you and you are your business. If you do not want failure, do not go near failure. We have to re-energise ourselves for the system to work Hence, the youth are the main focus to galvanise productivity in our nation’’.
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This move was a synergy between two clubs; The Lagos Achievers Lions Club and Lagos Achievers Leo Club. Lagos Achievers Lions Club is the parent body while Lagos Achievers Leo Club is the youth wing of the former. The latter is a platform built to engage the youth in a fun-like way to ensure that they also understand the need to serve their community in their little ways.
Leo Blessing Odjegba Onome and Leo King Dolapo Moshood, among other participants of the training, testified of the need to have at most a handiwork.
“Handiwork cannot deceive one. We can use our hand to do anything,”Leo King Dolapo said.”
The Regional Director of Academics Rhoda Odigboh, said: “Knowing that we are supporting children to excel in our country inspires those working at Bridge each and every day.
“Now, with three years of successful results we are confident that what we are doing in the underserved communities of Lagos and Osun states is working, and this motivates us to work even harder and impact more children. A good education will give children the opportunity to change their future and hopefully the future of the community and Nigeria at large. Every child deserves that.”
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