Edo state establishes fashion home to provide employment
Edo Government, through its Edo Skills Development Agency (Edojobs), has set up a fashion and style corner with the aim of creating jobs as well as boosting the fashion industry in the state.
The fashion and style corner was set up by Edojobs in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ)’s Skills Development for Youth Employment (SKYE) programme.
The Director of Edojobs, Mr Omole Niyi, while inaugurating the centre in Benin on Saturday, said the initiative was to create a conducive place where youths can make garments as a source of livelihood.
According to him, “This is aimed towards creating employment opportunities in Edo in line with Gov. Godwin Obaseki’s led administration in the state in different dimensions such as Information Technology Communications (ITC), skills acquisition, creative industry.
“This is just one of such initiatives where we have garment production factory where our youths that interested in fashion can come and learn.
“They will be trained and at the same time they can use our machines to produce for their customers and make monies for themselves.
“The GIZ is ready to partner with us on training our youths on the modern way of sewing and the fashion industry generally.
“Those who are already into fashion can come and make use of our modern equipment once they apply through the Edojobs platform”. he said.
He urged interested candidates to log on to Edojobs online platform and register and they would be invited for the training, adding that it was more than giving them starter packs.
“We have different partners who have fashion industries or fashion hubs in the state and beneficiaries would be trained in the locations.
“The training will run for a minimum of six months and after six months we expect that you should be able to make money for yourselves”, he stressed.