A non-governmental organisation, Adegboyega Adegoke Resource Centre, AARC, in Ibadan, Oyo State, has trained and empowered over 200 youths with requisite entrepreneurial skills to be self-reliant.
This is as the chairman of the organisation, Chief Adegboyega Adegoke, said the only way to minimise poverty and curb social vices among youths in the country was human development through vocational training and entrepreneurial skills.
Adegoke spoke on Wednesday during the graduation and distribution of working tools to young people who had undergone several forms of vocational training at AARC.
He said the training and empowerment would go a long way in reducing poverty, joblessness and the attendant crimes, among the youths in the society.
He stressed that when youths were engaged and impacted with knowledge through vocational training and studies, social vices and poverty would be reduced to the barest minimum.
While urging states and federal governments to invest more in vocational studies, he said that was a sure way of reducing social vices among youths.
He said, “There is poverty and unemployment in the land coupled with the consequences such as social vices, which we can reduce drastically if the government, corporate bodies, foundation and individual philanthropist can invest in vocational studies.
“Doing so, many youths will be engaged and they will be far away from social vices, that can dent their image and that of their families.”
