By
Mrs. Elizabeth Kenny Oshin
Director, Training & Administration
PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, Ipaja
Are you read and yet unemployed or employed without fulfillment and/or satisfaction? Are you struggling to gain admission into the university without luck and you already getting old then God may be telling you something. Many of the business magnates were forced into business by hardship along the line in their lives. Life will often give you lemon, it is your duty to make lemonade of it.
I struggled in different directions before I discovered my calling; vocational training. Before studying catering for industry with South-East London and sugar craft with West London College, I had struggle to gain admission into the University to study medicine or health management. With hinge sight, now I know that the hardship of those days were to shape my life to give glory to God. There will always be economic meltdown. There was global recession in 1945 following the second world war, some nations embarked on austerity measures and their economies contrasted further. But those with great vision, U.S. A. in particular embarked on borrowing to invest and their economies bounced back faster. Citizens of United State of America are more enterprising than many other countries in the world because most of their great men started with personal skill development. Vocational training is all about developing your God-given skills. At Peace and Development Vocational Training Centre, I bring to bear the skill that God has deposited in me and help young ones to bring out the ones deposited in them.
Many love cooking and entertaining naturally but they are not making money out of it because they think it belittles them to be a Caterer. Some have fashion design ideas even when they have not learn the skill and they have no paid employment, yet they spend fortunes in buying clothes that do not fit them nor meet their taste. Many homes will be happier today if the women can supplement the income of their husbands. Even if you work, you can make extra income through your God-given skills. To also lessen the burden of your dependent relatives including church members, send them to acquire skills through vocational training.
The structured academic system conditions the mind of people for employment which in the real sense of it is slavery, vocational training, especially with sincere Christian institutions as Peace And Development Centre, empowers you to become entrepreneur. Think of what you can do with your hand and it will surprise you what God can do with it for you.
At Peace And Development Centre we build people beyond the skill. We run what could be called Total Training by engaging the trainees practically, exposing them to real life situations through excursions and paid outdoor catering job while we also pray aggressively with our trainees to tackle their spiritual challenges that are responsible for some people’s plight. We are accredited by both NABTEB and Federal Ministry of Labour for Trade Test. I encourage you to come and enrol today at Peace And Development Vocational Training Centre. You can call me personally on 0803 228 5165 or Pastor on 0802 321 4575 for further details.
