Rotary Club empowers 100 students with vocational skills

The Rotary Club of Ibadan Jericho Metro on Thursday empowered 100 secondary school students with vocational training.

The students from Our Lady of Apostles, Odo-Ona, and Queens School, Apata benefited from the four-week programme.

The students were trained in fashion illustration, resin art and direct transfer film and were then presented certificates after the graduation ceremony.

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Speaking, the Vice President, Rotarian Omolara Oluborode, said the training was conducted to empower the students and assist them to make extra income.

She said that through vocational training, the Rotary Club has played a vital role in shaping the future workforce and enhancing the overall well-being of the community.

According to her, the initiative has not only helped students gain valuable skills, but also foster a culture of lifelong learning and professional development.

She said: “We’re here at Our Lady of Apostles and Queens School for four weeks to train the students on different vocational training. We’re able to do this to empower them, so that they can have their skills development, and they can generate income from these skills we have been able to teach them.

“They can take these skills along with them and it will help them throughout their years as they progress. We also use this training as a second means of income for them to be able to generate more income so that is why we were able to do it.”

In her remarks, the facilitator of the vocational training, Fiyinfoluwa Salisu, noted her satisfaction with the responses from the training, especially from some who are eager to commence work and start earning money.

She encouraged the beneficiaries to continue learning and lay their hands on some of the works they’ve done.

“The response so far has been great; we had 50 students in each school, averagely I can say more than half of them participated well, more than half of them were even eager to get their own materials by themselves and start work immediately.

“Some of them, even before we finished the four weeks programme, started telling me that they have clients already that I should give them sample pictures, so that they could show them to their clients. That was very impressive, seeing that we had not even finished and they were already looking for ways to earn money from it.”

Meanwhile, the vice principal of Our Lady of Apostle, Odo-Ona, praised the club for the training, which was given free of charge.

She said: “They really did well because if these students are to go and learn all these things outside, they would really pay huge money but these are the things that were given to them freely, without any charges or whatever so it’s a great opportunity for these students and then we’ve really encouraged them that all these things that they have done, later in life it will be very useful for them and it will make them be owners of businesses and even employers of labour in the nearest future.”