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Firm trains 50 women on fashion skills to reduce unemployment 

By Ngozi Egenuka
09 June 2022   |   2:37 am
Global T-Shirt Factory has empowered at least 50 women and girls in Makoko community with fashion skills.

[FILES] Makoko

Global T-Shirt Factory has empowered at least 50 women and girls in Makoko community with fashion skills.

 
A statement signed by Managing Director, Global T-Shirt Factory Nigeria Limited, Adedokun Adeola, explained that the firm partnered with Makoko Dreams Foundation to help empower women, girls and any interested male with fashion intensive skills such as machine handling, apparel cutting/sewing, apparel print technology, apparel design, print and sewing machine specialisation, among other others.
 
He said the move was due to the firm’s core value, which he hinged on human development.
 
He noted that skill acquisition was a process that had birthed professionals with high-end skilled levels in many areas of the economy.
 
He emphasised the importance of skills acquisition as a measure to reduce the number of unemployed in the country. 
 
“Global T-Shirt Factory and Makoko Dream’s project offers to train over 50 persons living within Makoko, Yaba, who may be interested in acquiring any of the skills offered, plus immediate contractual employment of outstanding participants (male/female). The training is scheduled to last for weeks and our firm would be responsible for logistics, and feeding of the trainees throughout the duration of the training,” Adeola said.
 
According to him, the project began with 22 trainees, male and female, some of whom are now skilled in their selected field of choice, while others are still undergoing training due to the complexity of their skills of choice.

“After their individual training is complete, they shall be gainfully employed as employees of Global T-Shirt Factory, earning salaries as well as commissions on a weekly basis based on their field of expertise,” he said.

 

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