NDE Trains Unemployed Ondo Women On Shoe, Bag Making

by Mercy Ulasi
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In Ondo state, the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has begun training for women in shoe and bag production.

The Director General of the Directorate, Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, stated during the training’s inauguration ceremony that the goal was to increase the capacity of women in job creation and reduce the country’s unemployment rate.

Mr Olusegun Adelodun, the Ondo State Coordinator of NDE, represented Fikpo at Akure, the state capital.
“The first phase of the training was simultaneously held in the 19 Northern States and the FCT between the 27th and 31st March 2023,” he says, adding that the second phase is now underway in the country’s 17 southern states.

“In all, a total of Seven Hundred and Forty (740) women have been selected nationwide at the rate of Twenty (20) women per state.

“The Women Employment Branch (WEB), a platform of the Small Scale Enterprises Department is responsible for undertaking this training that is commencing today which the objective is to design income generating activities for women in order to generate mass employment and reduce poverty amongst women.

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“In line with this, I am glad to inform you that in the year 2022, the Directorate through WEB kick-started the training in income-generating activities in skills such as Decorative Painting Making, Embroidery (stone/beads on clothes), Perfumery, Organic Products, Extraction of Natural Organic oil, Spice/ Seasoning Production, Turban (Headgear) making, Event Decoration, Makeup & Gele and Rafia Works.

“The products and services emanating from these skills are in high demand, therefore we expect our beneficiaries to be doing well in their current endeavours.

Fikpo said that the Directorate through its intervention programmes and schemes had created over one million direct jobs for women of all categories through skills acquisition and entrepreneurial training opportunities.

He added that the directorate has also, provided a platform for women who have benefitted from its numerous skills acquisition trainings to gain international exposure and network through participation in local and international Trade Fairs.

He called on the beneficiaries of the training to listen attentively to their trainers and practice whatever they were being taught, at home.

According to him, “Do not let your domestic duties serve as a distraction to you; create time to practice, as practice makes perfection.

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“Ultimately, it is my desire that you become self-employed thereby increasing the wealth and dignity of your family.”

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