By Cajetan Mmuta, Awka
The chairman of a Non Governmental Organization, (NGO) John Bosco Foundations and Patron of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide Youth wing, Chief John Bosco Onunkwo has disclosed that a total of 500 youths are to benefit from a skills acquisition scheme through his foundation in Anambra state.
Also, the sum of N5 million has been donated by the Foundation for the youths to embark on Environmental friendly research aimed at protecting the state from natural disasters.
Chief John Bosco Onunkwo stated this while Fielding questions from journalists shortly after he received an award of excellence from the Ohaneze Youth wing at a ceremony held in Awka the state capital.
He noted that his foundation would ensure youth employment and capacity building to take them out of crime and joblessness.
While handing over the certificate of the award to Chief Onunkwo, the Ag. National Youth leader Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Mazi Chukwuma Okpalaezeukwu, said the award was in recognition of his philanthropic services to humanity in the State and Nigeria.n
Onunkwo said that he had through the foundation instituted a lot of programmes such as aquatic building training, Agro-Allied training, and youth scholarship just to eradicate poverty among them.
According to him, he would do all things possible to ensure that youths are reasonably and responsibly positioned to contribute to the development of the country.
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“We tend to start the training with 500 youths for eradication of poverty, and we have also empowered 100. we will continue to empower the youths through the entrepreneurial skills acquisition because youths are the pillar of the society, ” he said.
Onunkwo further stated that he has donated N5 million for the youths to research environmentally friendly society.
He said the foundation is putting in place a seminar for the youth to discover and eradicate poverty, especially mental poverty among. described mental poverty as a major bedrock for youth misfortune and assured of lifting youth for greater services to the nation.
According to Onunkwo, the seminar would be used for youth talent identification and to empower them accordingly to be better citizens.
He also stated that he has sponsored the youth in the southeast on the problems of insecurity in the southeast and the causes.
He said that most importantly, he wants to unite and bring all factions of Ohaneze youths together under one leader for meaningful development in the region.
