The Nigerian Bottling Company Limited (NBC) has launched ‘Youth Empowered’, a training workshop programme to support, empower and provide youths with basic life and business skills for their personal development and self-sustenance.
The launch of Youth Empowered took place in Lagos recently with stakeholders from government and non-governmental organizations in attendance.
‘Youth Empowered’ programme, aimed at empowering 500,000 youths by 2020, through training workshops to support and provide youths with basic business skills for self-sustenance.
Speaking at the Youth Empowered launch, NBC Managing Director, George Polymenakos said, “The youth remain a major focal stakeholder group in our community intervention programs and sustainability initiatives. Over the years, NBC has built and maintained strong community trust into our corporate strategy, which has driven our business to invest time, expertise and resources in locally relevant initiatives to facilitate socio-economic development of our communities, especially amongst the youth.”
The NBC Youth Empowered, he stressed, is designed to take participants through workshops in Lagos, Port-Harcourt and Kano, to help them discover themselves, understand their strengths and developmental opportunities, as well as provide them a platform for meaningful interaction with business leaders and mentors.
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