NYSC SAED program and what it entails.
Skills Acquisition & Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) is an empowerment program aimed at providing corp members with a skill set or honing their existing one. The SAED program usually starts in the second week of the orientation course and corp members will have the opportunity to choose from over 15 skill sets made available to them.
EXAMPLES OF EMPOWERMENT SKILLS
Some examples of empowering skills you can choose from are:
- Photography & Cinematography
- Bead Making
- Leather works
- Creative writing
- 3D floors & Wallpaper making
- Electrical works
- Catering, Fashion designing etc.
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) SAED program will help corp members add value to themselves by doing something that complements their discipline or just something to fetch them extra cash during their orientation course and beyond.
The Department is headed by a Director and is made up of two divisions namely:
- Skills Acquisition Division
- Entrepreneurship and Empowerment Division
FUNCTIONS OF THE SAED DEPARTMENT
Functions of the department include:
- Sensitize and mobilize 200, 000 young graduates for skill acquisition annually.
- Facilitate the training and mentoring of 100, 000 young graduates in skill acquisition and entrepreneurship development for self-reliance annually.
- Promote public-private partnership for entrepreneurship development and self-reliance among Nigerian youths.
- Promote documentation and sharing of best practices on youth empowerment in Nigeria.
- Support evidence-driven advocacy efforts for favorable policies on youth empowerment in Nigeria.
- Sensitization and mobilization of corps members for enrollment into the skill acquisition and entrepreneurship development program.
- Development of a standard curriculum for the in-camp skill acquisition exercise.
- Identification of organizations at state level to provide training and mentoring in specific skills sets.
- Attachment of the corps members to the various organizations for skill acquisition and entrepreneurship development.
- On-going monitoring and supervision of trainee corps members.
- Facilitate access to available funding opportunities.
NYSC SAED PROGRAM
It should be noted however that the NYSC SAED program is only sponsored by the government till you’re in camp in which if you wish to continue with your training you’ll have to arrange with your SAED trainer and pay a small amount of money that has been subsidized by the Government.
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