Excitement was visibly written on the faces of women and youths as they acquire catering and baking skills for a sustainable source of income in the face of unemployment.

The more than 200 participants are undergoing a two-day free empowerment training programme organised by the Ambassador Peter Orobor Foundation (POF) in collaboration with Manna Cook and Bake Global Empowerment Initiative (MCBGEI) in Abuja.

Some of the skills taught included cake making, buttercream and foundation decoration, doughnuts, egg roll, scotch egg, peanuts and chinchin, meat pie and sausage rolls, fish rolls and kokoro, spring rolls, samosa, mocktail and local drinks, bread, shawarma and grills.

One of the beneficiaries, Ms Davida Etuk, teenager and student, described the training as a game changer for her because she learnt a rare skil of burger making and others.

The visibly excited Etuk said, “I was opportune to learn bread making, shawarma, and burger. I really enjoyed the class; it was interactive.

“Now I know how to make a burger myself; it is not everyday business. It is not like the egg roll, doughnuts that everybody gets to do everywhere.