A Non-governmental Organization (NGO) Youths Empowerment Foundation (YEF) has launched a programme for youth, especially girls, in Nigeria with the aim of aiding their success in career and business.
The programme which is called ‘Future Makers’ is targeted at empowering teenage girls who had benefited from the foundation’s GOAL mentoring and empowerment programme to get the right tool to help them secure jobs and be successful in business, while properly positioning them to be successful in their careers.
Speaking during a recent quiz competition organised for benefiting secondary school students of the GOAL programme in Lagos State, Head of Corporate Affairs and Branding, Standard Chartered Bank, sponsors of the programme, Joke Adun, said the programme was initiated to help teenage girls who had benefited from the GOAL programme to be successful in their career and education.
The competition was part of its GOAL project aimed at inculcating teenage girls with life skills such as; financial literacy, sex education, and sports.
Adun added that the GOAL programme had recorded a significant success since its inception in 2010, stressing that thousands of teenage girls had benefited in several areas.
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“One of the reasons we continue to do this is because we believe the future of Nigeria is the children. We have been doing this since 2010. We are not just saying we are doing this and would stop half way; we are committed to this programme.
“The girls that started in 2010 are in universities, while some are starting their businesses. We recently launched a programme called Future Makers, the benefit of the program is to empower girls with the right tool to help them find jobs and success in business, and to positioned them to get the right tool they need to get the right education and career,” Adun said.
Speaking on the quiz competition, Executive Secretary of the Foundation, Iwalola Jimoh Akinjimoh, said the impressive performance of the students of the participating school proved that the students had inculcated the value of the GOAL programme.
“The programme is opportunity to bring the schools together. For us it is more important because the more young people are able to learn from each other; through this they are able to reinforce positive values in their behaviour.
“So because we cannot reach everybody in the schools, we brought some people we can reach. Directly they have learned not really what youth empowerment is about, but financial literacy, time management, sex education and the rest,” she said.
At the end of the quiz competition, Community Junior secondary school, Akoka, emerged winners, while Onike girl’s secondary school placed second, Idea secondary school placed third.
