Stakeholders Applauds Le Look Bags Academy’s Poverty Reduction Programme

Stakeholders Applauds Le Look Bags Academy’s Poverty Reduction Programme

Nigerians all over the world are known to be industrious, resilient, intelligent and dedicated to their professions.

To this end, some individuals are contributing their quote to the growth of the economy through various vocational training. One of them is Chief (Mrs) Chinwe Ezenwa Managing Director CEO of Le Look Bags Academy Lugbe,

training Women and Youths to produce high quality hand Bags with durable materials for many decades.

In an Exclusive Interview with Journalists, Chief (Mrs) Chinwe, said the organisation engage in poverty reduction by training women and youths from rural communities and IDP camps.

According to her, “initially we reached out to Religious Leaders to send the names of their members who are less privilege, but they selected their families, friends and relatives. We discovered this and stop using that method.”

She further buttressed that the intention of the organisation is to train the poor and needy in the society to become self employed, self reliance and employer’s of labour.

In her words:

“When it is time for admission, we send our staffs to the rural communities and IDP camps to select the right people that need this vocational training to better their lives. We train people every quarter of the year”. Chief Chinwe said.

In partnership with UNDP, the organisation has trained many Women and Youths to produce high quality hands Bags with durable materials for many decades.

Chief Chinwe maintained that the training programme is designed to equip unemployed youth with limited formal education, basically women, with practical skills in bag-making as a sustainable livelihood mechanism. It is aimed at empowering young people who are disadvantaged to acquire this special skill for a living.

In addition, Le Look Bags Academy also aligned with UNDP’s HerAfCFTA initiative and the #HerFacility component, the training is designed to cultivate a skilled workforce supportive of Nigeria’s growth under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). This strategic focus underscores the Programme role in preparing participants to meet international standards in bag manufacturing, crucial for leveraging opportunities within AfCFTA

The participants gain wealth of experience to meet international production standards, to drive increased trade opportunities, both national development and the continent's economic integration.

Le Look Bags Academy is renowned for producing exquisite “made in Nigeria” bags fashioned from textiles that portrays African cultures and tell African stories. It is one of the foremost in the African Continent producing and training people in art of bag making.