Kelechi Kas
The Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, HYPREP, says 400 women would be trained in the four Ogoni Local Government Areas of Rivers State in the areas of fish farming, poultry management, fish/poultry feeds production, and modernized crop farming to enhance their self-sustainability.
Mrs. Josephine Nziidee, Head of the agency’s livelihood programme stated this during a sensitization and community engagement programme in Teera-ue and Kpean communities, Khana Local Government Area.
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.
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.
Our correspondent reports that the visit marked the conclusion 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.
