VTIRUWED Trains, Graduates Vulnerable Female Youths In Bamenda
Cross section of VTIRUWED Graduates in family picture. Story by Laarry Uchenna The Vocational Training Institute of Rural Women for Education and Development, abbreviated as VTIRUWED, has successfully graduated its pioneer batch of trainees from the institution in Bamenda in the North West Region. This was during a graduation ceremony that took place at MINEPAT Hall Upstation, Bamenda, on Saturday, October 29, 2024. A total of 33 highly vulnerable female Cameroonians aged 15 to 30 were trained and impacted respectively in five different fields in their Bamenda branch during an intensive 1-year, five-month course. With head office in Ndop, Ngoketunjia Division, the Bamenda branch, which is an institute under the Rural Women Center For Education and Development, RuWCED has been in existence for about 2 years now, and this is the first set trainees it is graduating. Though it is the first batch in Bamenda, VTIRUWED Ndop has graduated 6 batches and Bamenda pioneer graduation makes it the