There is a popular saying that youths are leaders of tomorrow, but for Professor Chukwuma Soludo, Governor of Anambra State, youths should lead today and own the future.
This is why he promised to build youths that are productive at home and exportable abroad through quality education, youth empowerment and positive engagement.
Since assumption of office on Match 17th 2022, Governor Soludo has remained resolute towards creating the productive youths, targeting 130,000 private sector jobs and 1000 youth millionaires annually.
This progressive agenda has led to the introduction and actualization of the most impactful youth programme nationwide called ‘One Youth Two Skills” Entrepreneurship Programme.
The programme being driven by the ministry of youth development has proven to be visionary with best human capital development approach, championing the course of a livable and prosperous Anambra State.
Going beyond training youths a few days inside halls with no impact nor serious empowerment, One Youth Two Skills Entrepreneurship Programme enthroned a sequential methodology to achieve the best result which includes, Apprenticeship, Entrepreneurship, Cooperative Society formation, business financing and one year mentoring.
This systematic approach has proven to be productive as the process has trained and empowered 5000 youths in the pilot phase and set to train and empower 10000 youths in the second phase.
Under the pilot phase, the ministry of youth development trained these five thousand youths in 21 different skill areas including, cooking and catering, clothing and fashion, cinematography, marble-look table top casting, cooling system, agriculture, ICT, solar power engineering, metal fabrication, cosmetology, confectioneries, etc and has up-scaled by introducing new 26 skills to make it 47 skills in the coming phase.
With One Youth Two Skills Entrepreneurship Programme which has continued to gain momentum, Governor Soludo has made a bold statement towards addressing unemployment in the state as the programme targets creating thousands of jobs.
It is important to mention also that Governor also introduced digital skills with the establishment of Solution Innovation District which has trained about 20,000 Youths on digital production tools and entrepreneurship in partnership with Microsoft and Wootlab.
These milestones and more clearly defines the vision Governor Soludo has for Anambra State and the future he envisions for Anambra youths.
Governor Soludo’s youth development solution is a complete package and has continued to deliver on the agenda of building productive youths and creating a livable and prosperous Anambra State.
Written by VALENTINE MBADUGHA
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