The Rotary Club International District (9125) is set to empower 600 youths in Ibadan and Abuja on a week vocational cum socialization skills.
This was disclosed on Saturday in Ibadan by the District Governor, Rotary Club International (District 9125), Rotarian Sagab Ahmed, during a courtesy visit to the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Oyo state council.
Rotarian Ahmed said the programme tagged the: ‘Rotary Youth Leadership Academy’ is a vocational/leadership/socialization training, saying the training in Ibadan is scheduled to precede that of Abuja where about 300 or more participants are to be trained.
“Very importantly, we want to develop socialization skills in them. They would be able to interact with other people in a very respectful and organized way in their processes of growth”, he said.
The Rotary Club Governor added, “It is in the process of interaction and one’s capacity of interacting with other people that actually develops one. Also, there is going to be several activity like physical training as well as structured classroom training where they would be trained and there would be interactions in their social activities”.
“At the end of the day, we hope they would be able to develop long lasting friendships just as that of alumni of a particular school. They would grow possibly being Rotarians and also being helpful to each other and at the same time being of service to their communities’.
While soliciting for the cooperation and support of the media, Rotarian Ahmed said the programme sponsored by District 9125 aims at training selected 200 plus participants who are members and non-members of the club in Ibadan.
He noted that the programme also aims at gearing the interests of the non-members in Rotary activities and membership, saying, the program needs media attention as a way of showing the importance of developing the youths.
Rotation Ahmed stressed, “The vocational skills to be learnt includes “tailoring, soap and cream manufacturing, shoe making and several others”.
