Africa Agility Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to educating, training and mentoring young girls in Information Technology (IT) has honoured the Skyway Aviation Handling Company PLC (SAHCO) with an award in appreciation for its support and partnership.
SAHCO recently partnered with the Foundation to lend its support for the Education and Support of Girl’s Child.
The ground handling company made available its world class ultra-modern training facility located in Lagos to training and mentoring of the girls in IT for three weeks at zero cost to the foundation.
The three weeks training boot camp programme, which was tagged “GIRLS in TECH” was aimed at empowering the talent economy of Africa, reducing poverty rate and promoting gender equality by proffering digital solutions to certain problems in Africa.
Speaking during the Grand Finale of the programme, Founder/CEO of the Foundation, Aanu Gopald, said: “our mission is to transform lives, one girl at a time through tech education.”
She said the foundation is dedicated to empowering 500,000 girls by the year 2030.
As a way of appreciating the unwavering support of Girls child in Nigeria, African Agility Foundation has honoured SAHCO Plc with an award.
According to Gopald, “there is no better organisation that deserves the award than SAHCO because of its steady support for Girl’s Child Education in Nigeria.”
While responding to the award, the Managing Director/CEO of SAHCO, Basil Agboarumi, said he was elated and thanked the organiser for finding SAHCO worthy of the award, stating that he will continue to do his best to support Girl’s Child Education.
He stressed that promoting girls’ education and rights through advocacy, capacity building and awareness creation is a beautiful way to empower women in Nigeria and all over the world.
“As a company, we will continue to do our best to support girls/women education,” he said, disclosing that apart from making the SAHCO’s training facility available to the foundation for three weeks as a contribution, SAHCO has also had to integrate some of the former graduands of Agility Foundation into SAHCO yearly.
Agboarumi went further to say that the girls attached to SAHCO have helped to develop software applications which have been of tremendous help to the company at large.
He emphasised that the world has moved and we need to move to solving problems with technology instead of complaining.
He promised the Foundation of SAHCO continuous support to help all girls in Nigeria to be technically enabled to impact positivity on the economy of Nigeria at large.