One Mind Friends Empowerment Foundation (OFEF), a non-governmental organization (NGO), has announced its intention to collaborate with the government to empower unemployed Nigerian youths and the less privileged through skill acquisition programs.
The Executive Director of the foundation, Sunday Archer disclosed this in Enugu while fielding questions from newsmen, during the first-anniversary celebration of the Foundation.
He noted that the foundation was established with the sole aim of empowering unemployed young Nigerians and the less privileged, through its various skill acquisition programmes, to reduce unemployment and enhance economic growth.
“The foundation aims to better the lives of the vulnerable in society, as a home for empowering the less privileged. We intend to achieve this through our series of public lectures, seminars and workshops for our target populace,” he said.
Archer added that the Foundation also aims to touch the lives of no fewer than two hundred and fifty unemployed and less privileged individuals in Nigeria through its various empowerment programmes, before the end of the first quarter of year 2025.
He added that over seventy-five young Nigerians have already benefitted from its free ICT training.
Archer urged Nigerian parents to avail their children the opportunity of free computer training, to enrich their knowledge of ICT.
He noted that the primary objective of the foundation was to upgrade the living standards of the poor and helpless, by making them to be self-reliant through its various skill acquisition programmes.
Lantana Nasir
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