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Vocational and Technical Training Centre
During the year under review, an automobile mechanic and automobile electric workshop were completed at the Oluaka Dimma Vocational and Technical Training Centre, Coal Camp, with fifty youth apprentices in training.
The Centre has so far trained more than one hundred youths who graduated in various skills; such as automobile mechanic, automobile electrical engineering, welding, foundry, iron works, painting and computer.
Impact of the project on the society is tremendous as its activities have led to policy shift by the state government towards skills acquisition for youth empowerment, reduction of unemployment, access to training, poverty reduction, self-reliant businesses and wealth creation. Several young men and women graduates of the Centre are today enjoying sustainable livelihoods.
The VTTC established in 1998 trains the youths in the following skills;
- Automobile mechanic and allied trades
- Automobile panel beating and painting
- Welding and Fabrication
- Metal works and Foundry
- Technical Drawing, Allied Trade Calculations
- Christian Ethics and Moral Studies
- Computer and Information Technology
These courses offered for self-reliant and sustainable employment. Youths holding minimum of the First School Leaving Certificate are trained in skills that last two years and the apprentices on graduation are mature and capable of setting up technical workshops of their own, and work with Christian ethics that guide their decisions and the morality of their actions.
In this way, immorality, corruption, truancy, embezzlement, counterfeit, bloating of quotations, that are rampant in the society will not be found among youths trained at the Centre.
Objective of the Centre include the following;
- Create the enabling environment for the development of low level technical manpower and skills.
- Train apprentices for self-reliance and self-employment.
- Provide micro credit to trained apprentices
- Provide tools and equipment bank for graduate trainees.
- Expose the apprentices to modern methods of craftsmanship though seminars and workshops
- Establish equipment and tools adaptation centre
- Adapt, design, develop, construct and fabricate machines and equipment.
- Establish functional production industrial workshop to sustain the Centre.
- Provide the environment for the engineering students of tertiary institutions to develop and produce practical course works.
- Provide environment for solid background and sound engineering foundation for students on internship programme.
- Operate the Centre to attain international standards.
Misereor, Germany, FIDESCO, Austria and France represented by Mr. Hugo Oelz, the United Nations Development Programme, Enugu State Government, and the Catholic Diocese of Enugu support the work of the Centre.
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