Total empowers youths through vocational training

Total Nigeria Plc launched the Skills Acquisition Programme in 2008 to empower the less privileged youths with state-of-the-art training in vocations of their choice.

This opportunity serves as a platform to ensure that youths will have a chance for a better future. This programme, according to the firm is currently deployed in Koko, Delta state as well as Makera and Kakuri districts in Kaduna state.

In a statement, the company described its core value as skills acquisition programme, adding that it’s an unwavering commitment to the sustainable growth and development of Total’s host communities.

Since establishing its facilities in Kaduna and Delta states, Total Nigeria Plc said it has equipped the young men and women of these communities with relevant expertise and intensive training in select occupations such as Welding and Fabrication, Carpentry, Tailoring and Fashion Designing, Construction, Fish and Crop Farming and Computer Studies.

Upon completion, Total said it provides the graduating youths with two years’ post-paid rented shops and work tools for their trade.

Every year, “Total host communities nominate potential youth beneficiaries who must be indigenes. A standard selection interview is conducted and 15 beneficiaries are selected with five from Koko and 10 from Kaduna.