Kwara State government in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has empowered 32 children who have been in Borstal centers (remanded) for different alleged crimes.
The empowerment programme was for the second batch of ex-convicts released from Borstal Training Institution, Ganmo, between April 1, 2022 and December 31, 2023.
A total of 103 adolescents who had been convicted of theft and rape were released, out of whom 65 were assessed while 32 were empowered in 18 different skills.
The essence is to reintegrate them back to society.
Tools and kits for electrical works, events planning, fashion designing, bricklaying, tailoring, Metal Works (welding), I.T (Computer set), Aluminum Works, Vulcanizing, Wiring, Clothes Weaving (Aso Oke), Photography, Solar Installation, amongst other, were distributed.
The Kwara state commissioner for Social Development, Abosede Buraimoh, admonished the empowered children to put to good use the equipment given, and stressed that the kits should not be sold but used to better their lives and society.
