ASCI Founder Joy Onumajuru Holds Media Tour, Speaks on Youth Empowerment At World Youths Skill Day

 As Nigeria, and the entire Africa continent joins the world in the celebration of World Youth Skills Day, the Founder and President of Africa Scholars Care Initiative-ASCI, Miss Joy Onumajuru has shared her perspective on the significant, relevance and the relative impact of dynamism on human capital development, as it concerns youths.

She made the reaction while speaking during on one of Africa's biggest television program, Kaakaki Morning Show on Africa Independent Television-AIT. Onumajuru was live on air to discuss the Impact of Covid19 on Human Capital Development, which is the theme for 2020 World Youth Skill Day, set aside by the United Nations to recognised and proactively respond to issue surrounding skills for youths across the globe.


The President and Founder of Africa Scholars Care Initiative-ASCI spoke extensively on youths and skills acquisition, especially with regards to the recent challenges experienced as a result of the novel Coronavirus pandemic outbreak. She noted there cannot be any reasonable development with a world of youths without skills. She emphasized on the need to invest in youths by taking them up in different skills.


Additionally she stated that there is need for Nigeria and the present Administration to improve upon its local content and help the youth realize that there isn't any room for laxity, as well as bridge the lacuna that we see today with regards joblessness and engagements in crime that threatens national security and peaceful coexistence. She however encouraged governments at all levels to come up with programs on skills empowerment that could help Youths survive especially with the recent outbreak of coronavirus and challenges it has created on skills acquisitions.


Joy Onumajuru thereafter concluded by emphasizing on the need to ensure that youths learn little and manual skills that includes baking, fashion designs, soap making and other empowerment skills that could be promoted by exploring the fast growing development opportunities in ICT, which is also an area where efforts can be extensively channelized to support empowerment pfor youth in Nigeria.


The Founder and President of Africa Scholars Care Initiative-ASCI, Joy Onumajuru has remained committed to programs and initiatives that supports empowerment, care and enlightenment for prospective development across Africa, especially in Nigeria. Her Foundation recently constructed and commissioned a high leveled water system in a primary school in Jahi, Abuja to provide water to children in school, as well as those living within the Community.

As she continues her ongoing media tour, Miss Joy has promised a continuous advocacy for vulnerable children and households across Nigeria and Africa, especially with the threat of Covid19. She has already held several interviews on various influential media platforms across Nigeria, which in the Nigeria Television Authority-NTA, amongst others. She would be speaking on Arise Television.

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