Alayo Zone under Mawuko CDC trains Community Youths on entrepreneurship skills.

As part of efforts of Alayo Zone Community to educate and empower the community members on entrepreneurship and financial education that would enable them to earn more income and improve their businesses.

On Saturday, 24th of December, 2022 Alayo Zone under MAWUKO Area CDC Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State organized ONE DAY Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy workshop 1.0: Sensitization of the Community to grow the income of each family in the Community at Alayo Zone Meeting ground, Mawuko Abeokuta, Ogun State

Alayo Zone is one of the zones under the Mawuko Area Community Development Council, under Odeda Local Government Area in Ogun State. The zone comprises ten (10) Community Development Associations. They ensure to improve the quality of lives of individuals and families in their communities to bring about social change.

At the occasion, the Chairman, of Mawuko Area CDC, Chief Kalejaye Muideen welcomed all participants to the training and asked the participants to pay maximum attention. He said further that this is the first of its kind in the history of Mawuko and then appealed to the participants not to take this opportunity for granted.

The Chairman of the day, Elder Ayanbiyi in his words encouraged the youth to be hard-working and remain focused. He thereafter declared the workshop open.

Meanwhile, the Chairman of Alayo Zone, Chief Akin Agbaje thanked God for the success of the event and appreciate all participations and community leaders for coming.

The first facilitator, Ifeoluwa A. Adesanya, the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture Youth Entrepreneurs (NYE) State Coordinator spoke about the meaning of entrepreneurship, the Qualities of an entrepreneur, SWOT analysis, Marketing Business, and how to save for the future.

The second facilitator, Olaniyi Ogunmekan, Cooperative Auditor and Extension Officer for Abeokuta Branch I of Ogun State Co-operative Federation Limited spoke about the brief history of Cooperative, the meaning of Cooperative, the main purpose of Cooperative, Cooperative and entrepreneur and Steps for joining and forming a cooperative Society.