The United Nations Youngsters’s Fund (UNICEF) and Unilever Nigeria Plc, have collaborated to mentor 700,000 Nigerian youths by 2026, equipping them with Twenty first Century abilities to thrive as profitable professionals and entrepreneurs.
That is whilst they’ve unveiled the Future-X Campus Ambassadors Programme (FUCAP), an initiative aimed toward equipping Nigerian youths with important abilities for future work place.
The initiative consists of 4 parts, together with profession seminars, entrepreneurship abilities course, work expertise, and youth challenges.
The joint initiative by UNICEF Nigeria and Unilever Nigeria additionally aimed to succeed in and equip 700,000 youths with important abilities for future office by 2026. At the moment, 10 seminars have been performed in several universities throughout the nation.
The programme specialist at UNICEF Nigeria, Bharat Kundra, on the FUCAP Campus Seminar holding on the College of Lagos (UNILAG) Essential Auditorium, in Lagos, stated intensive world analysis and authorities collaborations had been aimed toward guaranteeing youths purchase important abilities for a safe future, resembling communication, collaboration, crucial pondering, digital and monetary literacy, and resilience.
Despite future challenges like technological challenges, entry to gadgets 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 goal to attach 700,000 younger individuals in Nigeria to significant alternatives by 2026, and we have now 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 purpose 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 talents discovered from such seminars to share concepts and classes with a broader viewers.
Individuals associate at Unilever Nigeria and lead venture coordinator of the FUCAP seminar, Zainab Ajadi, stated that the purpose of the entrepreneurship idea was to develop future enterprise house owners and entrepreneurs who aren’t afraid to take calculated dangers with a view to broaden.
Ajadi famous that the purpose of the partnership with UNICEF was to lift consciousness of alternatives, put together younger individuals for the long run, and provides them the instruments they should reside significant lives. Altering younger individuals’s views and helping them in seeing the long run 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 Providers) UNILAG, Prof. Ayodele Atsenuwa, stated by means of its entrepreneurial packages, 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 financial system. “You college students of this nice establishment and our alumni are our satisfaction.”
As for the wonderful program, some college college students have taken turns commending UNICEF and Unilever. They claimed it taught them quite a bit about self-worth, confidence, and the unfavorable results of getting an inferiority complicated.
For example, Mr Elijah Olubiyi, a 200-level pupil of the School of Regulation, UNILAG, and a participant on the seminar, stated the shows had impressed and helped to direct his ardour to the proper facet.
Olubiyi, nevertheless, counseled UNICEF and Unilever for placing up the seminar, which, in response to him, has added extra beneficial data to the scholar’s selection of profession. He described the programme as laudable and top-notch.
Talking to our correspondent, Balogun Abubakri, an element 2 pupil of the Division of Enterprise Schooling, Elijah Eniola, a Half three Regulation pupil and Obey Victoria, a Half three pupil 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, the right way to develop shallowness, construct confidence and relate with individuals and what to anticipate in workplaces amongst different issues. We look ahead to the sustainability of the seminar, we attraction to our fellow college students to embrace it as a result of it should assist in shaping their future profession,” they chorused.
