The youths who scaled through the screening exercise out of 200 applicants are participating in the first batch of the hands-on-training which has entered its third week.
The free training is a collaborative effort of the Education, Youth and Empowerment Committees whose secretaries are, Dr Rahmat Adisa and Alhaji Saka, and the Mission Board of the society.
The Chief Missioner of NASFAT, Imam Abdul-Azeez Onike, who disclosed this explained that the organisation is committed to ensuring that the youth have access to empowerment opportunities.
He said, “NASFAT as a society is poised to achieve the mission of ensuring that our youths and others have access to economic empowerment opportunities, having achieved relative success in the area of widows’ empowerment as hundreds of widows in NASFAT, especially at the headquarters, have been financially empowered”.