By: Felix Ikpotor
No fewer than 400 women from the four Ogoni local government areas of Khana, Gokana, Tai and Eleme would soon undergo agro;based training courtesy of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, HYPREP.
The women are expected to be trained on fish farming, poultry management, fish/poultry feeds production, and modernized crop farming to enhance their self-sustainability.
HYPREP’s Head of Livelihood Programme, Mrs. Josephine Nziidee, stated this during a sensitization and community engagement programme in Teera-ue and Kpean communities in Khana Local Government Area in Rivers State.
She said the training will last for seven months with one month used for theoretical intensive teaching and six months for on-hands training.
She said that the beneficiaries would be given incentives and start-up capital, and would be formed into cooperatives to enable them have access to soft loans from financial institutions in the future.
While calling on the communities to make their necessary inputs in the proposed skills programme, Nziidee said the agency has no plan to force skills on people who do not need them but on those willing to be trained.
PHSpectator reports that the visit marked the end of the engagement and sensitisation programme in Khana LGA.
The next phase of the Livelihood Programme will take place in the three remaining LGAs of Gokana, Tai and Eleme.
