As part of strategy to cushion the negative impact of unemployment in the country, one of the leading Pentecostal organisations, Redemption Ministries, is currently training participants on a 15 trade package under the 2019 Free Skills Acquisition Scheme, the programme coordinator, Pastor Austin Monday, has said.
The cleric made this known recently during a chat with newsmen at the Redemption Ministries Headquarters, Omega Beach, Port Harcourt.
The available skills for the 2019 trainees are agriculture, food processing, dry cleaning, knitting, Ankara and beading, minor electrical works, shoe and bag making, catering and barbeque.
According to him, others include phone repairs, paint technology, cosmetology, fiber boat making and ICT, noting that the programme, which commenced August 1, will end on August 29, 2019.
In his address of welcome presented at the opening ceremony, the programme coordinator said “this seminar is put together to further broaden the participant’s entrepreneurial knowledge and expose them to access various opportunities available to Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) in the state and the country at large.
One of the resource persons, Pastor Christopher Briggs, who presented a paper titled, “When and How to Change Your Story”, drilled participants on some of the factors responsible for success and failures of entrepreneurs.
He explained that strength, weakness, opportunities and threat inevitably remain basic experiences that could make or mar efforts of business operators.
“When you don’t know your weakness, you may not find it easy to catch up with opportunity as one of those chances we can leverage upon. strength is the ability to sustain self discipline, while threat puts you in a position of demerit, Pastor Briggs said.

Sunny Ajie