No fewer than 50 persons with disabilities were,
yesterday, given entrepreneurial training at the Songhai Delta Farms, Amukpe,
Sapele, Delta State, under the three to six months Skill Training and
Entrepreneurship Programme, STEP and the Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurship
Programme, YAGEP, of the state government.
They are scheduled to resume January 9, 2017, after
the yuletide break, to continue the remaining part of the training programme.
According to
the State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Social and Community Development,
Omotsola Williams, who flagged off the training programme, two trainees have
been selected from each of the 25 councils in the state, with more disabled to
be drafted into the programme in due course.
State Chief Job Creation Officer, Prof. Eric Eboh,
who harped on the success of the prosperity and wealth creation agenda of the
state government, said that the participants will be getting 10,000 naira
monthly stipend and other allowances, for the three months of their training.
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