Oritsegbubemi Omatseyin
Lagos — SIFAX Group through its CSR arm, the Ajoke Ayisat Afolabi Foundation, in partnership with the World Bank, has trained over ninety students of the State Senior Secondary School, Oyewole, Agege in Orile Agege Local Government Area, Lagos State, as part of its series of ongoing Community Connections Campaign Projects in Nigeria.
The training, aimed at empowering students with practical technology skills to help them improve their education, secure jobs, and become self-employed in the long term, covered various areas, including computer literacy, machine learning, and the use of Artificial Intelligence.
Representatives were selected from different classes across the school, with the hope that they would be able to transfer the skills acquired to their colleagues.
According to Mrs. Foluke Ademokun, the Executive Coordinator of the foundation, the initiative is part of a series of efforts to address the issue of youth unemployment and skills gap in the country and it’s expected to benefit not only the students but also the community at large, as the students would be able to apply the skills acquired to improve their lives and contribute to the economic development of their communities.
Responding on behalf of the school management, the Vice Principal of the school, Mrs Sherifat Ajala, appreciated and commended Ajoke Ayisat Afolabi Foundation for excellent facilitation and the opportunity given to the students to interact with the best minds who facilitated the training.
“On behalf of the school management and all these students, I want to say a big thank you to Ajoke Ayisat Afolabi Foundation and their sponsor, the SIFAX Group, for the good works that they have done in the lives of our students and for the wonderful gift. May the Lord Almighty continue to bless you,” she said.
Goodluck Innocent and Moses Faith, two of the students who participated in the training, were rewarded for good class participation and thereafter expressed gratitude on behalf of their colleagues to the Ajoke Ayisat Afolabi Foundation and SIFAX Group for providing them with the opportunity to acquire skills that would enhance their future employability.
At the end of the training session, the school was presented with the gift of a projector, laptop and projector screen as it is always done in the previous schools where similar programmes have been organized.
Other schools that have benefited from previous empowerment include: Community Grammar School, Zion Pepe, Ondo state; Osolu Senior Secondary School, Badagry; Pobuna Senior Grammar School, Epe and Baptist Model College, Ile-Epo. Others are Ijaiye-Ojokoro Senior High School, Ifako ijaiye and Unity senior college, Alimosho all in Lagos state, which brings the total number of empowered students to nearly 600.
