The United Nations Kids’s Fund (UNICEF) and Unilever Nigeria Plc, have collaborated to mentor 20 million Nigerian youths by 2026, equipping them with Twenty first Century abilities to thrive as profitable professionals and entrepreneurs.
That is at the same time as they’ve unveiled the Future-X Campus Ambassadors Programme (FUCAP), an initiative geared toward equipping Nigerian youths with important abilities for future work place.
The initiative consists of 4 elements, together with profession seminars, entrepreneurship abilities course, work expertise, and youth challenges.
The joint initiative by UNICEF Nigeria and Unilever Nigeria additionally aimed to achieve three million Nigerian youths and equip 700,000 with important abilities for future office by 2026. At the moment, 10 seminars have been carried out in numerous universities throughout the nation.
The programme specialist at UNICEF Nigeria, Bharat Kundra, on the FUCAP Campus Seminar holding on the College of Lagos (UNILAG) Principal Auditorium, in Lagos, stated in depth international analysis and authorities collaborations have been geared toward guaranteeing youths purchase important abilities for a safe future, akin to communication, collaboration, important considering, digital and monetary literacy, and resilience.
Regardless of future challenges like technological challenges, entry to units and the web, local weather points, or pandemics, younger individuals with Twenty first-century abilities will thrive as profitable professionals and entrepreneurs, Kundra affirmed.
To this finish, the programme specialist said that the FUCAP initiative was for younger individuals to achieve workplaces, including that the target is to show Nigerian youths to Twenty first-century abilities for them to rework society and set up themselves as professionals and entrepreneurs.
“Nigeria is the primary nation to learn from this initiative. The programme focuses on 4 key areas: profession seminars, entrepreneurship programs, work expertise, and youth challenges. Now we have already established sturdy connections with universities to facilitate the transition into the office.
“We purpose to attach 700,000 younger individuals in Nigeria to significant alternatives by 2026, and we now have already established sturdy connections with universities to facilitate the transition into the office,” he said.
To make sure seamless rollout of the initiative, Kundra stated, “UNICEF is working with educated volunteers to mentor the youths in buying these abilities. And the objective is to mentor 20 million youths by 2026, guaranteeing that FUCAP individuals can meaningfully utilise their abilities to construct their careers and mentor others.”
He, nevertheless, inspired Nigerian youths comprising college undergraduates to be optimistic and proactive, leveraging the abilities discovered from such seminars to share concepts and classes with a broader viewers.
Individuals associate at Unilever Nigeria and lead mission coordinator of the FUCAP seminar, Zainab Ajadi, stated that the objective of the entrepreneurship idea was to develop future enterprise homeowners and entrepreneurs who aren’t afraid to take calculated dangers in an effort to develop.
Ajadi famous that the objective of the partnership with UNICEF was to lift consciousness of alternatives, put together younger individuals for the longer term, and provides them the instruments they should dwell significant lives. Altering younger individuals’s views and aiding them in seeing the longer term to allow them to regulate appropriately was one of many obstacles to be addressed with the initiative, she famous.
In her remarks, the deputy vice-chancellor (Improvement Companies) UNILAG, Prof. Ayodele Atsenuwa, stated by its entrepreneurial applications, the college created alternatives and gave graduates a aggressive benefit within the job market.
Atsenuwa urged the scholars to make most use of the FUCAP to arrange themselves for the blue economic system. “You college students of this nice establishment and our alumni are our delight.”
As for the superb program, some college college students have taken turns commending UNICEF and Unilever. They claimed it taught them so much about self-worth, confidence, and the destructive results of getting an inferiority advanced.
As an illustration, Mr Elijah Olubiyi, a 200-level scholar of the College of Legislation, UNILAG, and a participant on the seminar, stated the shows had impressed and helped to direct his ardour to the correct facet.
Olubiyi, nevertheless, counseled UNICEF and Unilever for placing up the seminar, which, in keeping with him, has added extra precious data to the scholar’s alternative of profession. He described the programme as laudable and top-notch.
Talking to our correspondent, Balogun Abubakri, a component 2 scholar of the Division of Enterprise Schooling, Elijah Eniola, a Half three Legislation scholar and Obey Victoria, a Half three scholar of Bio-Chemistry, all lauded the corporate simply as they charged their fellow college students to take the programme critically.
“We’re enthusiastic about this programme as a result of it taught us about alternatives we’re going to look out for in life, how one can develop shallowness, construct confidence and relate with individuals and what to anticipate in workplaces amongst different issues. We stay up for the sustainability of the seminar, we enchantment to our fellow college students to embrace it as a result of it’ll assist in shaping their future profession,” they chorused.
