Empowerment: NGO Trains 100 Unemployed Youth In Kebbi
Empowerment: NGO trains 100 unemployed youth in Kebbi
The Khadimiyya for Justice and Development Initiative (KJDI), an NGO, in collaboration with Bashir Illo Foundation has trained more than 100 youth in different skills acquisition ventures in its empowerment scheme in the Kebbi.
Alhaji Ibrahim Abubakar Jambali, the Publicity Secretary of the initiative, disclosed this in a statement in Birnin Kebbi on Monday.
Speaking during the graduation ceremony of the trainees, the Founder of Khadimiyya, the Minister of Justice and Attorney- General of the Feferation, Abubakar Malami, SAN, congratulated the graduands for successfully completing the training programme.
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He also announced an undisclosed cash donation to each of the participants in addition to the start- up grants packaged by the two foundations.
Malami commended the Illo foundation for finding Khadimiyya worthy of the productive collaboration,saying that the human capital and youth development would continue to remain his utmost priority.
Earlier, the Chairman Board of Trustees of Khadimiyya, Alhaji Abubakar Gotomo, said the NGO was founded solely for humanitarian activities, adding that part of which job creation received the deserved attention.
He said more than 1,000 youth, so far, had benefited from Khadimiyya skills acquisition programmes and had since become self- reliant.
Gotomo, therefore, charged the graduating youth to put the knowledge they acquired during the training into practice.
“The Khadimiyya has successfully enrolled more than 500 entrepreneurs under Federal Government’s Agri-Business/ Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Scheme (AGSMIES) Where each of them could access loan ranging from N1 million to N5 million which is first of its kind in the state,” the chairman’s said.
Also speaking, Illo, said that he was encouraged to seek for the collaboration with Khadimiyya, considering how the foundation had been touching many lives through its numerous intervention.
He said that each of the 100 participants would go home with start- up grant in addition to additional cash donation by the minister of justice.
He said,” My foundation will continue the pertnership with Khadimiyya in getting rid of youth unemployment and idleness.”
The founder also announced the donation of a Peageout Wagon to Khadimiyya initiative on behalf of his foundation.
In his short remarks, the Manager of Khadimiyya, Alhaji Yahaya Koko, announced the enrollment of more than 200 new unemployed youth in to the foundation’s skills acquisition programmes.
He urged all political office holders to emulate Malami and embark on similar efforts in providing employment opportunities to the teeming unemployed youth in the state.
He said that the foundation had been offering charitable activities for the past eight years in all the nooks and crannies of the state.
Empowerment: NGO Trains 100 Unemployed Youth In Kebbi
