Skip to main content

ZFTF LAUNCH FREE EMPOWERMENT SCHEME

ZOW Flower the Foundation (ZFTF) has today launched a youth empowerment outreach “Empowerment for All” as part of its responsibility of enhancing the capacity of Nigerian youth in diverse area of human endeavours as well as the inculcation of the can-do-spirit into youth The economic empowerment intervention for youth which started with a photography training for it first phase is a platform for effective mentorship power house of ZFTF that equips the Nigerian youth with appropriate tools to succeed in every area and any life endeavor. The Program coordinator, Mr. Okechukwu Duru speaking in an interview said that the goal of the empowerment outreach is to facilitate poverty reduction and youth unemployment by impacting on meaningful economic youth engagement and sustainable development through skills and knowledge acquisition.
“Our goal is to empower youths with skills and strategies which will enable them to graduate from helpless condition of poverty, continued exploitation and abuse, to acquisition of knowledge, skills and strategies for economic empowerment; leading to informed decision making, self-reliance and secure livelihoods; “We look forward to impacting one million individuals and their families in two years, by enrolling twenty to Hundred people in the program network, representing a spectrum of ages every month” he said. Speaking with Victoria, a beneficiary of the training, she said “I am really glad to be a part of this training, I have long had passion for photography and I am happy that I have this opportunity and I thank the organizers for this training”.
The flagoff empowerment outreach captured training on the introduction to DSLR Camera, Basic light and light setup, framing and types of framing, Adobe Photoshop among other area. ZFTF have also put up modalities which will help monitor the participant as a form of follow up, to ensure that skills gathered from this training are well utilized.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Reject List From Countries In breach Of 30 Percent Women Representation – Njai Tells ECOWAS Parliament

A Gambian representative to the ECOWAS Parliament, Honorable Fatoumatta Njai has challenged the Community Parliament to reject list of countries that are short of thirty percent women’s representation to the Parliament. Speaking in an exclusive interview at the official Opening Ceremony of the Fifth Legislature’s delocalized meeting of the Joint Committee on Social Affairs, Gender and Women Empowerment / Education, Science and Culture/Health, currently holding in Monrovia, Liberia on the theme, “ Empowerment of Women in the ECOWAS Region.” Njai said that some countries lack female representation in the Conference of Bureau, this according to her is disregarding the ECOWAS Rules of Procedure. “The Rules of Procedures mentioned that each member country should have a female representation at the Conference of Bureau. Each country has three members in the Conference of Bureau, so each country can at least have one female member which will be thirty percent representation. I thin...
Abuja Bank Robbery: Police Arrest Alleged Mastermind source: Channels The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested the mastermind of the foiled robbery of a first-generation ba nk in the Mpape area of Abuja last Saturday. The suspect, a barman identified as Ernest was nabbed at his hideout by police detectives and is presently being held at the command headquarters by old CBN building, Garki, Abuja. The police had earlier arrested four suspects and gunned down the fourth member of the robbery gang identified as Patrick during the operation. The FCT Commissioner of Police, Bala Ciroma, had on Tuesday paraded the gang members including a bank employee, Larry Ehizo, 30, Timothy Joe, 21, Princewill Obinna, 24 and Elijah David, 19. Ehizo who allegedly drove the gang members to the bank claimed he was blackmailed by Ernest to carry out the heist. Narrating how the failed heist was executed, David said Ehizo informed the gang members that the r...
Benin Republic set to review Constitution on terms of Political Office. In a year when many countries on the continent and in West Africa are changing their constitutions to allow for incumbent presidents to run yet again, the Beninese National Assembly has approved a major constitutional reform to discuss the precision on the two terms of office of the President of the Republic among other issues. Detailing the political situation of Benin at the floor of the ECOWAS Parliament, the country report presented contained that the constitutions review was to address the current political situation of the country marking a new Republic following two unsuccessful attempts. The report stated that “Benin Republic has after the April 2019 Legislative elections experienced a tense atmosphere following the frustrating feelings from political group who were unable to participate in the legislative elections, due to the inability to meet the requirement on the law on the constit...