Accord For Community Development being a development mentor organization facilitated a session that enlightened and induct the Brass cluster development board members in Kalorubou community about the projects that would be implemented in in their community.
Kalorubou is amongst the eight communities that is made up of Brass Cluster development Board. Kalorubou has been one of the impacted communities of SPDC facilities, the community was entitled to some percentage of yearly mandate of Brass cluster development board. The community have not received their yearly mandate from 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018, unanimously agreed in a town hall meeting that fund accrue for Kalorubou community should be used to carry out skill acquisition training in three sections for the youths in the community. The three area are computer training, stud making, welding and fabrication.
The beneficiaries were informed about GMoU procedures roles and responsibilities of community members and other stakeholders in the process. The yearly mandate of Brass Cluster and percentage being given to Kalorubou community was communicated to community beneficiaries. Beneficiaries were further advised to utilized the opportunity through this training to increase their income by creating jobs for other community members. They were also informed that the training would be for six months. Beneficiaries will be given starter packs after the training.
After the induction/orientation, beneficiaries were transported to their various centers in within Yenagoa. The training started on the 2nd of September 2019.