USAID programme trains 69 more youths

The SKYE graduation (US embassy photo)

Last Friday, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) held a graduation ceremony at the Georgetown Club to honour 33 youth who completed work and life skills training and 24 youth who completed literacy training through the USAID Skills and Knowledge for Youth Employment (SKYE) Project.

A release from the US Embassy said that the graduating youth came from Regions 4 and 5. The literacy training which was conducted in collaboration with the Adult Education Association (AEA), equipped the youth in that programme with basic reading skills including fluency, phonemic awareness, and word attack skills as well as grammar, mechanics, and comprehension with a background of work readiness requirements.

In addition to these graduates, a group of 12 young people at the New Opportunity Corps graduated last