For 20 women in Taraba, the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) on Monday started a five-day course on how to make shoes and bags.
The training was a requirement of the directorate’s purpose to create jobs for Nigerians, according to Alhaji Danjuma Shehu, the NDE Coordinator in Taraba, who spoke at the program’s Jalingo launch.
Shehu claimed that the activity will help participants develop their abilities and become independent.
He said that the training was in line with the Federal Government’s initiatives to fight poverty and unemployment in the nation.
”Women are seriously affected by the hardship in the country. This training will prepare them for tapping into the available market in the leather industry.
He said that the 20 women selected for the training would be given N20,000 to start their respective businesses.
In order to develop abilities that will alter their lives, the coordinator pushed the participants to take the training seriously.
The women were earlier exhorted to take advantage of the chance in their own interests by the state’s NDE Women Employment Officer.
”This programme has the ability to turn your fortune around. I urge you to take it seriously,” he said. (NAN)