Ebonyi Lawmaker, Nwachukwu Empowers Female Students On Skill Acquisition

From Nwogha Ndubuisi, Abakaliki

Member representing Ohaozara East Constituency in the Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Hon (Mrs) Chinwe Lilian Nwachukwu has organized 3-days empowerment scheme for girl children in secondary schools in her Constituency. The students were trained in various household items including on how to produce Liquid Soap, Dettol, Pap( Custard), bleach or Gilk, Izail and car wash among others.

Speaking during the training programme, Hon Mrs Nwachukwu who noted that the project is her pet project ' Girl Child Education In Ohaozara East' noted that the Skill acquisition initiative was to gainfully involve the girl students in some trades that would equip them as to reduce girl children as victims of social vices in the society. The State lawmaker who expressed joy that there's still hope among the female students after the training, equally tasked them to register their inaugurated Girls Club as Cooperative Society as to ease them gain better financial opportunities in the future.

Hon Nwachukwu further emphasized that busy youths and girls have no time to think of social vices and promised to continue to give support to the students to harness their talents. On her part,the Resource Person, Mrs Blessing Oko Udu charged the participants to use the opportunity to learn various schemes under the programme and commended Hon Nwachukwu for the program which she said would rule out the problem of unemployment. The participants, Miss Agwu Blessing of Mgbom N'Achara Comprehensive Secondary School and Miss Angela Eze of Ezi Okposi High School said the interest of the Lawmaker Mrs Chinwe Nwachukwu in the educational sector has made it possible for some girl Children in the area to have a lifeline in the attainment of qualitative education. Meanwhile, the participants were tasked to submit their packed products with the name of their schools within 3 weeks of the training.