CONNAK Foundation graduates ICT experts, holds Founder’s Day
A non-governmental organization, CONNAK Foundation early this week, held its Founders Day, while graduating over 85 youths on ICT and other different skills.
In her welcome speech, the founder of CONNAK Foundation, Mrs. Carole Emeka-Sunday, disclosed that “Over 85 youths attended 9 months ICT training on computer hardware, computer software, programming, web development, 57 of them finished the first 6 months training while 45 completed the 9 months training”
Others, she highlighted include students of entrepreneurial studies as well as scholarship beneficiaries, disclosing that the foundation started in 2012 “with the mission to redirect and groom youths in our local community who were about to be overtaken by social vices like drugs, rape and cultism”.
Speaking with Daily Times later, Mrs. Emeka-Sunday said beneficiaries come from many places, even beyond the state, stating however that the Foundation wants to harvest much of the Ohuhu youths and others later, stating “it is basically to cover Ohuhu land first”.
She disclosed that Foundation is open to partnership, stating that those who will like to help will fund the youths, while the foundation monitors the progress for them.
Items of empowerment which was free include computers/laptop and printers, maximum cash of N1 million each to entrepreneur students, and other hardware items to the ICT, entrepreneurial, fashion designing, hairdressing, barbing saloon and other skill youths.
The Foundation used the occasion to honour illustrious sons and daughters of Ohuhu land and friends of the foundation who are from within and beyond the state.
The occasion also featured gifts to children and adults for the Christmas.
Most beneficiaries of the scheme told Daily Times that their patience earned them the empowerment, expressing their gratitude to the foundation and God.
By Sunday Nwakanma – Umuahia
