AWKA — Lately, social media is awash with stories of drug abuse, the quest for quick money, and all manner of decadence that have become characteristic of our society in recent times. While much of this is blamed on unemployment and disempowerment of the citizenry, perhaps rightly so, the major challenge however is that our collective future is further threatened to a breaking point and solution appears quite far away given government posturing over the years.
To this end, Anambra State-based international foundation has taken the challenge of unemployment more seriously with a commitment to train and equip people with relevant skills that will help them make a living. The Chizoba Solar International Foundation – CSIF has concluded plans to engage hundreds of school leavers, undergraduates, graduates, and other individuals who are interested in learning economically profitable skills to augment their capacity to earn, ineffective training to ensure mastery of the skills for better chances of making a living off them.
The skill training efforts are expected to produce hundreds of highly efficient individuals in the different skills the Foundation is offering training. For now, all is set to ensure that no fewer than five hundred individuals are trained in Graphic design, web development, tailoring, and solar installation and management.
The Foundation founded by Anambra State-born German-based Reverend Sister, Petra Chuwudike has already received support from the management of Dr. Alutu’s College of Excellence in Nnewi, which offered the Foundation a free space for the training, pending when it is ready to move to its permanent site that is yet to be constructed, but which site has been secured.
CSIF resonates with Sr. Petra’s personal story of lack and deprivation growing up, and her decision to do a little more than just offer scholarships and random assistance to indigent students. With support from her associates and friends in Germany, the Foundation has acquired equipment and relevant materials like solar panels and other necessary solar equipment, computers for web development, programming, and graphic designs, and finally sewing machines for tailoring, which are primary work tools for acquiring these skills. There are competent teachers to take students on the skills.
As of now, plans have been concluded for the Foundation’s open day slated for Saturday 12th day of February 2022 by 10 am, with the theme, ‘skill acquisition for a living’. This event will hold within the premises of Dr. Alutu’s College of Excellence in Nnewi and with this, those desirous of acquiring skills that will aid their upward movement in career and life, now have a chance to take a bold step towards their dreams. \
The Foundation has come to stay, which is to say that they will not disappear after the upcoming event, instead, they will be there to offer training on these skills to empower people to make a living through what they do with their hands.
He is a Technical Assistant to Governor Willie Obiano’s Special Adviser on Legislative Matters, whoonce was a Special Adviser to a former Deputy Speaker of Anambra State House of Assembly. Ebuka is a second class upper division graduate of Political Science from University of Calabar, Calabar Nigeria and holds a Masters Degree in Political Science with specialization in Government and Development Studies, from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka Nigeria
