Delta State empowers 6000 unemployed youths, says Eboh
Training, Vocational Skills Training and Completion ELTA Job and Wealth Proficiency Test.
Creation Bureau Officer, While congratulating them Prof Eric Eboh has said that on the successful completion the state traine d and estabof the various training activilished over 6,000 unemties and the Completion ployed youths in vocational Proficiency Test, he advised and agricultural enterprises. them to find a shop, set- up Prof. Eboh made this known and register their businesses yesterday in Asaba during immediately after the EBMT the Entrepreneurship and and establishment with Business Management starter pack.
Training ( EBMT) for 246 STEP He affirmed that with the beneficiaries of 2020/ 2021 completion of the 2020/ 2021 Cycle. STEP/ YAGEP Cycle, the State
At the training, which Government has changed spanned about four hours, the narrative for the jobless the Job creation Officer, youths in the state. charged the Skills Training Accordingly, seasoned and Entrepreneurship Programme ( STEP) beneficiaries in Fashion Design and Tailori ng to harness their hidden potentials creatively to become successful entrepreneurs in the fashion industry.
Eboh pointed out that the training was organised to expose the beneficiaries to business management and entrepreneurship skills to help them succeed in their enterprises.
He said the EBMT is the last part of the STEP training programme, which comes after the trainees have undergone four other activities - namely the Screening/ Selection Process, Orientation and
Personal Effectiveness
Dresource persons were selected to teach them business skills on “how to start and run business, how to manage business money, how to grow business, how to market product, how to relate well with customers, how to keep business records and how to cope with business challenges”.
Also, the Executive Assistant to the Governor on Youth Monitoring and Mentoring ( DYMM), Mr Edward Mekwunye, charged them to make good use of the opportunity provided by the State Government to become great entrepreneurs and successful business owners. He assured them that DYMM would visit them to verify their business status at their shops two months after establishment and to enrol them for mentorship programmmes in line with the mandate of the agency.
In his lectures entitled, “How to Start Your Business” and “How to Write a Business Plan,” a resource person, Pastor Afolabi Adun, urged the graduands to carry out feasibility study/ market survey about the business to understand the business environment better before setting- up.