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Inner wheel partners ExxonMobil, empowers 60 youths

By Tobi Awodipe
05 November 2016   |   3:53 am
Acting on its theme for the year, Touch A Heart, the Inner Wheel Club of Nigeria, District 911 graduated its students from a vocational training organized by the club recently at its vocational centre in Amuwo Odofin...
PHOTO:AFP

PHOTO:AFP

Acting on its theme for the year, Touch A Heart, the Inner Wheel Club of Nigeria, District 911 graduated its students from a vocational training organized by the club recently at its vocational centre in Amuwo Odofin, Lagos.

According to the program coordinator, Zainab Ikheloa, the participants started the intensive training on the 19th of September and were trained in various skills. The fields included hairdressing, Beauty and cosmetology, Bead making, Catering and Fashion and Design. All the participants were presented with certificates and tools they would use to work with. Ikheloa prayed for the participants and implored them not to sell the tools they have been graciously given as other participants of the initiative have done in the past. She urged them to use the tools to start a business in order to be financially independent.

Speaking with The Guardian, the District President IWM Wemimo Olasanya, thanked her fellow members and their initiative partner, Exxon Mobil who provided the funds for the tools. She urged the participants to make good use of the opportunity given to them and enjoined others to help those around them become financially secure as that would not only reduce crime in the society, it would gainfully engage many who are willing to work but have no one to help them.

The deputy national president, Inner Wheel Club, Dr (Mrs) Bimbo Sowande praised the club for daring to undertake the initiative despite the financial crunch the country is presently experiencing. She advised the hairdressers particularly to be neat and smell nice always as that would attract and keep their customer base.

Speaking with the only male graduate in the program, Igri Christopher who studied catering, he lauded the initiative and said he had no regrets. Asked how he felt amongst all the women, he laughed and said, “I felt like a king or prince, they didn’t make me feel odd out. I thank them for this golden opportunity. I have worked as a continental chef in a hotel before and I wanted to branch out on my own but didn’t have the capital. With this now, I believe I can now do that.”

Another participant, Nkiru Thompson who participated in the hairdressing programme thanked the club for empowering them and urged others to take these kind of opportunities and make good use of them. According to her, she was already an apprentice somewhere else but left there to participate in this programme.

The graduants were given certificates and various tools like wash hand basins and dryers, sewing machines, make up and make up boxes, cookers/ovens and tools for making beads.

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