 Founder of JAKIN NGO, a non-governmental organization, Mrs. Bukola Adebiyi, has said entrepreneur and skill development is a key to unlocking the potentials of out-of-school youths, especially those from the slum who have no opportunity like their counterparts in the society. This was revealed at the graduation ceremony of 180 youths, who just concluded three months youth empowerment training under the organisation, Fresh Foundation Project, sponsored and supported by ACT Foundation and Access Bank.
At the programme, held on Tuesday in Lagos, the JAKIN boss said her continuous push to empower youths was because of what she witnessed at the EndSARS protests. According to her, the event showed that Nigerian youths were frustrated and, if there was no deliberate plan and action to come up with empowerment schemes that would build their morals; vocational skills, business management principles and life building schemes that will help them discover the purpose for them to be able to fulfil their destinies, Nigeria may have a tsunami. At the programme, held on Tuesday in Lagos, the JAKIN boss said her continuous push to empower youths was because of what she witnessed at the EndSARS protests. Admonishing the 180 graduands drawn from six slums of Lagos State, Adebiyi encouraged them that as ambassadors of JAKIN NGO, the best they can give back for what they have learnt in the three months training was to go back to their communities to impact their younger ones with knowledge and reduce the number of girls being impregnated, and boys turning into hoodlums, instead of focusing on their education. Source: Vanguard
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