Written By: Ejike Anyaduba

The one month training for 81 members of the focal communities and vulnerable groups within 12 local government areas of Anambra state has ended. The skill acquisition training, organized by the Anambra State Community and Social Development Agency (ANCSDA) in collaboration with the Industrial training Fund (ITF), was held in three different locations in the state, namely: Awka, Agbudu, and Aguleri. The training lasted between one and two months, depending on the type of skill.

All the trainees, especially those learning the art of computer repair, hair dressing, bead making, block moulding, phone repair, barbing and shoe making, have successfully completed their program after one month, while those learning tailoring and carpentry with a duration period of two months, will end theirs by September 20, 2020.

The trainees, who were from the communities that host skill acquisition centers as part of the intervention projects from the Anambra State Community and Social Development Agency, were expected, on return to their various communities, to commence step-down training on their people at the newly built and well equipped centers.  

The training, no doubt, has gone a long way in empowering more community members with skills and trades to enable them to be self-reliant and help to drastically reduce poverty and unemployment in those poor communities and groups.

The graduation was witnessed by Anambra CSDA team. They were on hand to assess the impact and effectiveness of the training on the participants. While commending the graduands, the Chairman of the Anambra State Community and Social Development Agency (ANCSDA) and traditional ruler of Nteje, Igwe Rowland Odegbo, said their commitment and attentiveness to the skills learnt would help them in life. He charged them to go back to their communities and play the role of change agents for more sustainable developments in their places.

It is important to state that the ANCSDA collaboration with ITF on skill training of the poor communities and group members is part of the concerted efforts by the state government to ensure that all the newly implemented and equipped Skill Centers under ANCSDP-AF are functional and are making positive impact on the benefitting poor communities and groups.

The trainees as well as the facilitators were full of praises for the state governor, Chief Willie Obiano, for his relentless effort in ensuring that CSDP became effective in the focal communities and among the many vulnerable groups within the state.

It would be recalled that Anambra State Community and Social Development Agency (ANCSDA)  has made a lot of impacts over 61 poor communities in the state and among some vulnerable groups, providing them basic amenities, job opportunities and skill acquisition projects.

The training was to complement the efforts of the state government in those directions and to ensure that the skill centers are not left in disuse. The training will also go a long way in augmenting the good work done by Governor Obiano, especially in building up the 181 communities in the state through the community-choose-your-project-initiative of his administration.

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