162,500 women, youth to get vocational training

Whitefield Foundation has launched its Transformative Philanthropy Intervention aimed at empowering 162,500 women and youth across the country. The programme tagged, “From Dreams to Reality” would see the foundation providing vocational skills to hundreds of women and youth who are expected to train other people. The vocational training programme was launched during the 20th year […]

Whitefield Foundation has launched its Transformative Philanthropy Intervention aimed at empowering 162,500 women and youth across the country.

The programme tagged, “From Dreams to Reality” would see the foundation providing vocational skills to hundreds of women and youth who are expected to train other people.

The vocational training programme was launched during the 20th year anniversary of the foundation held in Lagos where it also gave educational support to 5,771 students.

Whitefield Foundation said it continues to be a beacon of hope and empowerment for individuals facing educational challenges in Nigeria.

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Chief Executive Officer of the foundation, Funmi Johnson, who spoke at the programme recalled that the foundation started as an initiative to help people to go to school, saying this has enabled over 5,000 to benefit from its free JAMB coaching, JAMB and WAEC forms.

She promised that the foundation would reach 1m people by next year, adding that it has expanded the scope of the operation to empower women, especially the petty traders and market women on financial literacy.

She said: “Today, we have reached many people and we have reached 179,000 women directly and they have benefitted from Whitefield. By 2025, we will have reached 1m. If I can change 1m Nigerians and another person can, Nigeria will be great.

Some of the beneficiaries of the education support scheme of Whitefield shared their testimonies.

One of them, Eunice S., was 16 when she encountered teenage pregnancy but through the foundation, she overcame the stigma and today she is a graduate of the University of Lagos with a second-class upper division degree in education.

Mopelola, a determined secondary school leaver striving for university admission, also found her breakthrough through Whitefield Foundation’s FREE JAMB Tutorial Classes; she is now a graduate of Landmark University in Kwara State.