In line with the State Government’s effort to equip Youth with manipulative, creative and career skills in various areas of socio-economic life for self-reliance, wife of the State Governor, Hajia Asmau Inuwa Yahaya has launched skills acquisition training for students with Disabilities in Gombe State University.
INN reports that the empowerment training which started two weeks ago is designed to last for six months under the tutelage of Her Excellency’s pet project, “Jewel Care Foundation”. The Foundation is a platform for equipping youths and women with various entrepreneurial skills, while at same time providing social and economic supports to vulnerable citizens of the State.
Speaking on the issue , Mallam Shuaibu Adamu, a Disability Desk Officer at the University said the Empowerment training which commenced two weeks earlier in the university ITC center is essentially designed to impart ITC literacy skills and knowledge to the students with disabilities in the university under the supervision of Her Excellency, Hajiya Asmau Inuwa Yahaya.
Adamu stressed that students with disabilities would be equipped with computer literacy in various skills including Ms word office, Excel, presentations, spreadsheet, memo, word processing, etc, for a period of six months.
He expressed hopes that the students would judiciously utilize the knowledge gained to achieve multiple goals in this digital age.
Students with disabilities at the training session in Gombe state university ICT center
“I am using this opportunity, on behalf of the trainees, to express our sincerely appreciation to Her Excellency Haj. Asmau Inuwa Yahaya, for initiating such empowerment privilege to our students.
“This training is very important to the students as it will go a long way to enhance their access to ICT information and education in this digitalized era.
The training will further improve learning potentials and equip the students with manipulative entrepreneurial skills for achieving self-reliance” Mallam Shuaibu added.
Abdullah Adamu Awak, Pesident, Joint Students with Disabilities, (JSWD), thanked the First Lady for the gesture and prayed Almighty Allah to bless and reward her for identifying with the plights of disabled students in the institution. He noted this is the second time the kind-hearted First Lady will be touching the hearts of students with disabilities in the institution.
Awak used the occasion to call on Her Excellency and other philanthropist in the state to extend similar gesture to students with disabilities at the Federal college of Education (Tech ) Gombe, stressing that students at the Federal College of Education (Tech) Gombe outnumbered those in the State University – and have been long neglected.
INN gathered that the First Lady had, last year, distributed learning materials such as manual typwriters, digital tape decoders, braille papers, exercise books, pens , pencils, talking calculators and scholarships to 15 students with disabilities in Gombe State University as part of her support for vulnerable students in the state.