Onimisi Alao, Yola
A non-governmental organization, Grow With Data Foundation (GWDF), has commenced training of 30 female youths on self-employment opportunities.
The three-day training, which is taking place in the Adamawa State capital, Yola, is geared towards equipping participants with the know-how to create jobs for themselves and raise their socio-economuc standards.
Executive Director of the Grow With Data Foundation, Mrs Nnenna Mosugu, said at the inauguration of the training in Yola that 30 young women mostly in their early 20s were taking part in the initial training.
She said the youths’ horizons would be expanded on job creation and income generation to reduce the poverty level of women.
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“Investing in female education gives them the opportunity to be employable,” she said, lamenting that female literacy in the northeast is among the lowest in the country at 28%.
“Creating access to vocational and entrepreneurial programmes becomes vital for women empowerment,” she said, explaining that the Yola training, which is the first in a series that will include other sets of young women, is tailored to enlighten participants on skills that have been identified as crucial in the rapidly changing digital society, especially with the prevailing work from home (WFH) trend.
Resource persons taught the trainees on Graphic and Web Designs, Blogging, Video editing, and photography.
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