A non-profit organisation, Amaka Chiwuike-Uba Foundation (ACUF) has organised monthly training of the youths in Nigeria on life planning skills and leadership.
The Youth Development and Leadership Workshop Series (YouDaL) is aimed at tackling some of the challenges facing youths in Nigeria through training and building the capacity of youths on life planning skills and leadership.
The Executive Director of the Foundation, Chiwuike Uba said some of the challenges include lack of knowledge to envision and execute strategic leadership processes and effective management; inadequate skills for entrepreneurship; lack of ability to participate in governance and effect social change and weaknesses in setting personal
and vocational goals.
He explained that the YouDaL Workshop Series would encourage youths to take up leadership responsibilities.
“YouDaL Workshop Series aims to promote youth leadership development, education and employment, to support healthy lifestyle and foster the participation of all the youth into all aspects of society at national, state and local government levels. The mission is to transform lives and build nations,” Uba said.
According to him, despite constituting more than 50% of Nigeria’s
population, over 60% of the youth population is unemployed and very
insignificant number in government.
Uba argued that contrary to the known and often used phrase – the youths are the leaders of tomorrow, the youths are also leaders of today, “because tomorrow is in the distance and we do not get there except the present is taken care of.
“Arguably, the youth are neither equipped to seize present opportunities
in leadership nor prepared/preparing to take future opportunities. It is
incontrovertible that everyone has unique strengths and challenges that
hinder them on the path of success.
“To confront the challenges, visioning and goal setting are required.
Goal setting helps us to separate our strengths from our weaknesses and
make realistic plans for improving our lives. It also provides the
needed focus and context to a mentor pair. Therefore, to address this
problem, ACUF’s inaugural YouDAL Workshop Series scheduled to hold in
Enugu, will focus on Visioning and Goal Setting,” he stressed.
The ACUF boss disclosed that the training workshop methodology shall
include individual exercises and reflections, stories and scenarios,
small and large group discussions, activities and games, role-playing
exercises and team projects and exercises.
He urged the youths to key into the programme as participation to the
training workshop is free of charge.
“However, due to limited available space, participation to the training workshop shall be only on registration to attend”.
Potential attendees to the training workshop were urged to send either
an email to info@acuf.org.ng or SMS to +234 803 309 5266 with full name and mobile number as an expression to attend the workshop
on/before Tuesday, June 26, 2018.
Prospective participants can also visit the Foundation’s website www.acuf.org.ng for more information.
