By Hassana Yakubu
A Non-Governmental Organisation, (NGO) Womenhood foundation of Nigeria has trained no fewer than 600 young women in Kaduna as birth attendants.
The Coordinator of the Foundation in Kaduna, Malam Abdulhadi Abdullahi, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Friday in Kaduna.
Abdullahi said the NGO had trained the youths on different skills acquisition programmes ranging from health aspects which included training as birth attendants, dental health technicians, health information managers and environmentalists.
Others include barbing salons for young boys and make-ups for the girls, among others.
Abdullahi noted that the aim of the training was to empower and reduce high rate of unemployment among the youths in the society in compliment to the efforts of the governments at all levels.
He said the training was mostly for young people who graduated from 'secondary schools'.
"like the train of birth attendants is mostly for girls; after the training period we send them to primary health care centres, private clinic to undergo some practical aspects under our supervision.
"We also access to see if they are fit to practice, if they are, we allow them to go and practice in their areas of residence", he said.
According to him, those that were trained in different aspects were offered some monetary assistance ranging from N100, 000 to N200, 000 to enable them go back to their places of residence and practice what they learnt, most especially remote villages that lacked enough health workers.
Abdullahi explained that the barbing salon training which was mainly for young boys from age 17- 30 years undergone three months training and at the end, they go back to set up their business.
"We make sure we assist them set up their shops to operate, including the make-up artists", he said .
NAN reports that the foundation has a monitoring team that usually visit the hospitals to monitor successes, progress and challenges faced by those who were trained in other to offer assistance.(NAN)
Edited by Sani Idris
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BUA cement donates N230m infrastructure to relocated communities in Sokoto
The facilities comprised a school, a township mosque, a clinic, two boreholes, and a 30 KVA electricity transformer.
BUA Cement Company has donated a school, hospital and other infrastructures worth N230 million to two relocated communities, Gidan Bailu and Gidan Datti, in Wamakko local government area of Sokoto state.
In handing over the facilities to the Wamakko local government chairman, Alhaji Halliru Guiwa, on Saturday, at the new settlement named Sabon Gidan Bailo, the Managing Director of BUA Cement, Alhaji Yusuf Binji, said that the facilities were part of company’s promise to the communities.
Binji said the donated facilities comprised a school, with two blocks of classrooms, an administrative block, township mosque, a clinic, two boreholes, a 30 KVA electricity transformer, township electrification installations and a cemetery.
The Managing Director commended the state, local governments, as well as the host communities, for the cordial relationship with the company, which had led to the provision of land for its activities.
According to him, the facilities were also meant to complement the efforts of the state government in enhancing people’s lives and facilitate a conducive environment for the relocated citizens to dwell in good living conditions.
Responding, Guiwa thanked the company for the effort, describing it as distinct in the history of relations between a commercial company and its host communities.
Guiwa urged the people to consider themselves lucky for having the BUA Cement company in their communities, in view of its immense contributions to the communities’ development.
He appealed for more in terms of employment for community members, especially youths, as well as the construction and upgrading of other infrastructures in the area.
Also speaking on behalf of the communities, the Ward Head of Kalambaina, Sardauna-Abdullahi Ahmad, thanked the company for its efforts and expressed his optimism that they would improve the wellbeing of the citizens.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the company had earlier built schools, offered scholarships, distributed school uniforms, trained women on business skills and supported health facilities in the host communities as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility.
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