The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has trained and empowered some persons living with disability on different vocational skills in Delta State.
The programme tagged ‘Training and Empowerment for People living with Disability’ was sponsored by the Commission and facilitated by an NGO called ‘Health and Skills for Africa’.
The programme was in line with NDDC core mandate of improving the standard of living of the people of the Niger Delta region.
Mrs. Rachael Misan-Ruppee, Coordinator of the skill development training programme in Delta State said that while still in training, trainees had started utilising their skills to make money.
“When the training started, they had little or no skill on the various skills they choose to be trained on but today they are professionals in their various fields as attested by their trainers,” she said.
Misan-Ruppee commended the NDDC for organising the programme noting that the gesture had given persons living with disability a sense of belonging in the oil producing region
The beneficiaries unanimously thanked the NDDC for the training and called for more of such gesture.
Mr. Friday Otobo, a trainee in photography thanked the NDDC saying, “This is what persons living with disability need, total inclusion into the society.
