Barrister Sam Otoboeze Foundation, (BSOF) provides economic opportunity and skills training for rural youths, women and girls at Ochima Community in Enugu State. Our skills training in the production of quality bags, shoes, fashion designing(clothes) and beads making is an income generating program and offers stable employment to these women, girls, youths and the physically challenged. Through our skills acquisition training centre, several women and youths and the physically challenged persons
Emerging evidence on the impact of COVID-19 suggests that women's economic and productive life will be affected disproportionately compared to men. The same goes for youths who face a high level of unemployment in Nigeria. The resultant effect of these on our rural women, youths and physically challenged person in Nigeria include: increased level of crime, drug/alcohol abuse, prostitution, street begging, depression and suicide. This project will positively impact the livelihood of over 50 women
BSOF has created a social enterprise model that empowers the rural women, girl- youths, boys and the physically challenged community with skills acquisition training to become independent entrepreneurs. Over the years, we have used our 'WYSTIP' (Women, Youth Skills Initiative Training program) , to provide the women, girls, youths and the disabled community with the opportunity to become independent entrepreneurs. Through our hands-on training, the trainees graduate into trainers yearly.
Poverty & Crime Reduction - The project will educate over 50 women acquiring skills either as producers or marketers of their products, allowing them to rise out of poverty, eliminate hunger, reduce crimes in the rural communities while also affording them a means to improved healthcare and well-being. Trainees become bread winners, empower other women, vacate street begging and prostitution, stop other hunger related crimes and major concerns of the SDGs will be achieved in Nigeria.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
