A month Vocational & Entrepreneural Training Program to UpSkill unskilled women and youth in eight (8) professional practical and sustainable vocational skills
Youth Empowerment starts when an individual is skilled on how to proffer solutions to human/community problems. "Train and Empower a woman and you have trained a community".
The rate of unemployment and poverty are increasing geometrically and the way out are self employment and skill empowerment to be able to offer solutions and create value in exchange for a better living condition. Vocational Skills creates specialisation and skill mastery in addition to White collar professions.
SkillUpWeeks Ng v3.0 is the third editions taking place nationwide. An Initiative of Arewa Technology Hub & Young Support Foundation a Non Governmental Organization with Reg no: CAC/IT/NO/149587 under Corperate Affairs Commission.
Our Focus is on Skilling up one (1) million Nigerians (underserved, unskilled women and youth) by the year 2030, to be self reliance and empowered to create applicable solutions to some fo the most facing challenges in the country: skill-gap (SDG 8), poverty (SDG 1), lack of quality education (SDG 4), lack of solution driven enterprises (SDG 11), lack women particitipatory role in economy building (SDG 5)
By the end of the four weeks program beneficiairies (underserved, unskilled women and youth) would have already acquired knowledge of running a business with a vocational skill, norture it, got the basis and afterwards continue with the implementation and also have access to our partners who will mentor them to become professionals, guide them on how to seek for more startup funds from international and national investment institutions.
We are set to achieve four missions: (A) To skill 100,000 beneficiairies in entrepreneurship soft skill and twenty-four thousand (24,000) beneficiaries to learn thirteen (13) different professional, practical and sustainable vocational skills (B) Platform for sponsors to provide Empowerment pack (Startup Capital, Startup equipment, CAC registration and other Start up kits) for two thousand and four hundred (2400) finalist who will be pitching at the Grand Zonal Pitching competition, where seven hundred and eighty (780) emerge as winners nationwide (C) Expose Professional Vocational Training Centers to national and international opportunities (its a skills fair) (D) Provide a Skillshare platform for beneficiaries to network, advertise and mentor upcoming generation afterward.
The SkillUpWeeks v3.0 starts with a week online entrepreneurship soft skills training for all participants from 6th Dec 2021 and ends on Dec 10th 2021.One hundred thousand beneficiairies (100,000)
Participants will undergo real time hands on practical training according to their selected/registered skill of interest. By the end of the training each skill class will collaborate as a team to build and pitch a solution as a case study to be presented at the Zonal Grand Finale/Exhibition Day.
SkillupWeek Ng is an annual program that runs nationwide, framed within the broad content of ensuring collaborative effort from stakeholders to empower
the next generation with sustainable vocational skills.
Trainees thereafter enrolls with trainers to undergo a period of internship/mentorship, get certified
before securing funds, grants and startup kits to launch their innovative, business that will
solve a specific problem within immediate community and nation.
Listed below includes the 10 skills categories and 30 different skills selections;
