The JayTeeOjo Foundation has commenced free training for youths in Ekiti State on Information and Communication Technology so as to solve unemployment rate among youths in the state.
The president and founder of the Foundation, Taiwo Ojo who spoke in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, lamented that most youths are idle and have nothing to do with their time, adding that there are increasing opportunities in the technology space across the world which could serve as a means of employment for youths.
Ojo, represented by the facilitator of the training, Tosin Adara, said that he conceptualised the three-month training to expose the youth to the opportunities in the ICT sector which would be beneficial to them and the society.
He explained that the beneficiaries who will be given N60,000 for the three months, would also receive free laptops after the training.
He said that the free training, worth over N500,000, would focus on programming platform called python that could be used to provide solutions to myriad of challenges in the society across all sectors.
He said that after the three months training, the beneficiaries would have the opportunity to be employed by a United Kingdom-based technology company for them to earn a living while they will all be trained as freelancers, available for job offers.
According to him, “We are keen in training the youths who are interested based on our love for the people. We want to see young ones being engaged and ready to work. After this training, they would be working with a UK-based company.
“We are focusing on Python now because we believe it is the future of programming and it can be used to solve problems and as long as we have problems in our country,we will solve it locally. This software can be used for data analyst, information management and other things across all sectors. It is basically to solve problems in health, education, security, economy, sports and other sectors.
“We want to change the narratives about the internet that there are numerous opportunities that will be beneficial and bring jobs not thinking about internet fraud. They would be working right from Ekiti here with the foreign company which will in turn pay them.
“In JayTeeOjo foundation, we want to see a situation where our youths take up opportunities especially in the technology space to change their lives for better rather than waiting for government job that are not available anymore. The truth is, there are opportunities in technology which our youth must embrace, that is the drive of the foundation.
“In the next couple of months or years the students in this classroom will join their counterparts in other parts of the world in delivering quality ICT solutions. Trainings like these used to be a tall dream, but in Ekiti State, the JayTee Foundation is making it a reality.”
He said that after the three months training, the beneficiaries would have the opportunity to be employed by a United Kingdom-based technology company for them to earn a living while they will all be trained as freelancers, available for job offers.
According to him, “We are keen in training the youths who are interested based on our love for the people. We want to see young ones being engaged and ready to work. After this training, they would be working with a UK-based company.
“We are focusing on Python now because we believe it is the future of programming and it can be used to solve problems and as long as we have problems in our country,we will solve it locally. This software can be used for data analyst, information management and other things across all sectors. It is basically to solve problems in health, education, security, economy, sports and other sectors.
“We want to change the narratives about the internet that ,there are numerous opportunities that will be beneficial and bring jobs not thinking about internet fraud. They would be working right from Ekiti here with the foreign company which will in turn pay them.
“In JayTeeOjo foundation, we want to see a situation where our youths take up opportunities especially in the technology space to change their lives for better rather than waiting for government job that are not available anymore. The truth is, there are opportunities in technology which our youth must embrace, that is the drive of the foundation.
“In the next couple of months or years the students in this classroom will join their counterparts in other parts of the world in delivering quality ICT solutions. Trainings like these used to be a tall dream, but in Ekiti State, the JayTee Foundation is making it a reality.”
Responding, two of the beneficiaries, Jackson George and Awogbemi Abimbola commended the foundation for the training and other supports, promising that they would do everything possible to take the full advantage as provided towards making their marks in the technology space.
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