Abuja church equips 300 youths, women with skills

About 300 youths and women in Abuja have been equipped with skills following a free two-week skills acquisition and empowerment training programme.

The programme, which was organized by the RCCG Living Seed Church in the Lugbe area of Abuja, featured intensive training on web design, digital marketing and artificial intelligence; catering; phone and computer repair; fashion design; cinematography and event management and decoration.

Others include making of bags and shoes; hair styling and barbing; fish farming; production of soaps, paints, creams, sanitizers, and liquid germicide and disinfectant; and make up and gele artistry.

The training was conducted by Youth Capacity Development and Skills Enhancement Initiative and supported by Josiah Akindayomi Foundation.

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Speaking during the graduation ceremony for the beneficiary, Goodness Ginika Roberts, the Assistant Director Research & Development of the church, explained that the programmewas intended to empower youths not just from LSC Abuja but within the environment irrespiective of their faith with valuable skills, marketable anywhere in the world especially in view of the issue of unemployment bedeviling the country.

She explained that start-up kits were also procured for best students during the training with a camera presented to the group that studied cinematography and materials were purchase for those that learned event planning and decoration under the supervision of the Church to be released to the group members on need-basis.

Other start-up kits presented to beneficiaries during the ceremony included two laptops for participants in website design, five boxes for participants of make-up and gele, three sewing machines for participants in fashion design, two sewing and smoothening machines for participants in shoe making class, baking tools and ovens to five participants in catering class and phone and computer repair tool-kits for five beneficiaries.

In a related development, the church also organised a free market wherein at least 395 beneficiaries from the community went home with items ranging from foodstuffs, clothing, shoes and other items.

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