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The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has disbursed starter packs to no fewer than 42 unemployed graduates.
The beneficiaries participated in the NDE’s Community Based Training Scheme, (CBTS) and School on Wheel (SOW) programme.
Alhaji Abubakar Nuhu-Fikpo, Director-General of NDE, made the disbursement at a resettlement ceremony on Thursday in Abakaliki.
Nuhu-Fikpo, represented by the NDE Coordinator in Ebonyi, Mr Don Anaba, said that 20 graduands of CBTS and 22 SOW participants benefited from the disbursement.
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He explained that the beneficiaries had undergone and completed training on different skills, which include fashion designing, catering, make-up, hairdressing, electrical installation, and barbing among others.
“The graduands have all undergone in-depth training in various skills. Today, we are giving them tools and equipment, relating to their skills as loan packages.
“The objective of this project is to establish competent artisans in both rural and semi-urban areas who would, in turn become self-employed and further create wealth and reduce poverty.
“I urge the unemployed youths in Ebonyi to continue to avail themselves of the opportunity provided by NDE to acquire skills and exit joblessness,” he said.
(NAN)
