Skill Acquisition: Ugborhen Community In Partnership With Seplat Presents Starter-Packs To Youths

Youths from SEPLAT, host Community, Ugborhen in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State were on Wednesday presented with starter-packs each to enable them start income yielding businesses after an intensive skill acquisition trainee programme put together by the community and Seplat Energy Plc.

The fourth batch of the skills acquisition trainees’ graduation ceremony held at the Ugborhen Community hall, in Ugborhen was part of Seplat’s capacity building programme which selects and trains participants from the company’s impact communities.

Commissioning the starter packs, Eng Folorunsho Afolabi, Managing Director, Seplat West Limited, who was represented by Mr Elias, while congratulating the graduands, said this was part of Seplat’s corporate social responsibility to host communities, saying the programme was designed to eliminate social and economic issues like joblessness, poverty, crime and restiveness in communities, adding that it will also help to develop positive attitude towards work, and build self reliant youths.

Earlier in his address, the President of Ugborhen Community, Dr Nelson Ukoko, while thanking Seplat, said the starter pack was a new beginning.

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