The Delta State Authorities mentioned it plans to companion with the Nationwide Company for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Individuals (NAPTIP) to coach women in Senior Secondary Faculty ranges between SS1, SS2, and SS3, to keep away from being lured into human trafficking.
The Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs, Group Assist Companies, and Lady Baby Growth, Miss Orode Uduaghan, made this recognized in Asaba, yesterday whereas briefing members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Asaba Correspondent’s Chapel, on packages and insurance policies of the Ministry for the 12 months forward.
She additionally mentioned that the federal government has entered right into a partnership with Junior Achievers of Nigeria, to help and empower survivors of trafficking within the state.
“This group is coming to Delta State to companion with Secondary Faculties to show women who’re in SS2 and SS3 entrepreneurial abilities. Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, only in the near past accredited that, so that’s going to be taking place in all of the 25 native authorities areas of the state,” she mentioned.
On girl-child growth initiatives, the Commissioner introduced that the state authorities had accredited a program to coach women throughout the councils between the ages of 28 and 35 years on digital literacy, entrepreneurship abilities, and enterprise administration to grow to be self-sustaining people.
She noticed that within the final 12 months, the ministry in partnership with the Entrepreneurship Growth Middle had empowered 250 individuals in every of the native authorities areas, saying 1700 excellent contributors got grants of N150,000 every, to arrange their companies.
The chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists NUJ, Asaba Correspondent’s Chapel, Comrade Ifeanyi Olannye, thanked the commissioner for supporting poor and weak households, particularly underneath the present financial hardships.