Not less than 200 youths from Elekahia community in Port Harcourt Local Government Area will be trained in a one month free skills acquisition program organized by the Elekahia Human Resources Development Youths Association, in conjunction with Ample-Link Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO).
Speaking at the flag off ceremony at the Elekahia Skills Acquisition Entrepreneur center in Port Harcourt, Rt. Comrade Enyinda Chike, the Executive Director of Elekahia Human Resources Development Youths Association said the acquisition program was put in place to help the teeming unemployed youths in the community.
According to him, “As an NGO, we saw the need to help our youths by providing an avenue for them to be trained in skills so that they can be employed, be their own boss and also employ others when they are well established.”
He said the skills program is free of charge for all indigenes of Elekahia and other residents in the community for the past years.
“It is our own contribution to the welfare and well being of the people, we want more people to come out of the poverty line of life, that is why we have embarked on this human capital developmental,” he said.
Comrade Chike used the opportunity to call on multinationals, well-meaning individuals and corporate organizations to partner with the Elekahia Human Resources Development Youths Association to help to sponsor more of the free skills programme for the youths of the community.
In his words: “I call on organizations like the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and other agencies to partner with us, to see that the youths are trained in skills acquisition so that youth restiveness in the society can be reduced to the barest minimum.”
Also speaking Evang. Ejiro Trust, co-ordinator of Ample-Link Foundation, the technical partners, said their aim was to train youths on skills especially on bead making, catering, computer and lots more without stress; “I call on well meaning individuals to come and partner with the Elekahia Human Resources Development Youths Association to help reduce poverty in the land.”
He maintained that, “if a good number of youths are skillful there will be more right-thinking individuals who would be able to help themselves, without committing crime. Evang. Trust called on other NGOs to emulate the gesture of Elekahia Human Resources Development Youths Association (EHRDYA).”
