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In a bid to tackle the lingering issues of unemployment in the Niger Delta region, Velma Foundation with support from The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has organised Agricultural empowerment training program for people with disabilities.
The training which ranges from Lectures on Entrepreneurship, Cassava Processing, Juice Production, Palm Oil Processing/Production, Fish Drying, Basics of Marketing of processed Agro product, Easy Export, and Finance/Planning, took place in Benin, Edo state, have Thirty (30) participant drawn from different part of the state present.
While addressing newsmen, the State Training Coordinator, Velma Foundation, Misan Ruppee, said the training is a means of developing skills in People Living With Disabilities, so they can contribute immensely to the National GDP and be self reliant.
Misan further ascribed the empowerment training as a means of addressing Sustainable Development Goals 1, 2, 4.4, 8.3, 8.5, 8.6, 9.3, and 10.2
“We discovered that in the society the people living with disabilities are being neglected, and NDDC want a situation where they can be trained, so they can be useful to themselves and the society”
“After the training they will formed various cooperative societies, and from the cooperatives they will be empowered to set up themselves with all we have trained them on”
“All the Niger Delta states are part of the program. We have done in Delta state, Ondo state, and today is the turn of Edo state”
Responding, The chairman, Joint Association of Persons With Disabilities, Edo chapter, Henry Ebosa, who is a participant, appreciate NDDC for the laudable training project, describing it as very timely considering the rate of unemployment and the level of unavailability of jobs in the country.
“Personally I am into rearing of birds, and there are certain things that I don’t know before, but the training have thought me all because there are professionals on ground to put us through on what we can do to aid us in our various Agricultural endeavours”
“I believe this will go along way in empowering people living with disabilities in our society today”
Another participant, Omorogie Clara, while appreciating the organisers, express joy over the skills she has acquired in the course of the training.
“I have learnt a lot, concerning the Cassava Processing, Juice Production, Entrepreneur ”
“The program has made me to realise that even though you are physically challenged, there is something you can do to put food on your table, so, I am really enlightened”
