The Bishop of Yola Catholic Diocese, Most Rev. Bishop Stephen Dami Mamza has today distributed starter packs to 150 youths selected from various IDP communities at the completion of a one year training in various skills.
Mamza noted that the empowerment will enable the youths who are within the age bracket of 17 to 25 to live a life of financial independence.
“We’re here to empower 150 youths whom we selected from different communities for the past one year.
“They have been trained in tailoring, barbing and small scale businesses. We have two university students whom we have been sponsoring. We selected them through the help of mission take heart our partner with whom we have been working for the past ten years.
“Mission take heart supplied 30 sewing machines, two barbing kits and paid the school fees for two students and trained 114 in grain businesses. We are here to empower them and ask them to start looking for their own livelihood,” he said.
He enjoined the beneficiaries to make the best use of the opportunity promising to continue to support them in boosting their businesses adding that they should consider themselves amongst the few lucky youths.
He thanked Mission Take Heart for its immense support over the years noting that such support has touched many lives in significant ways.
While thanking the Bishop, Yakubu Bitrus and Ruth Elisha from Fombina camp extolled Bishop Mamza and Mission Take Heart for the one year training and starter packs.
They promised to make the best use of the opportunity to better their lives and their communities noting that the empowerment is a once in a lifetime opportunity and they will not allow it slip away.
