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The new campus for Arua Multi-purpose training Institute in Pajulu, Ayivu West ConstituencyBY RICHARD DRASIMAKU
ARUA CITY: FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2025
The 227 youths are undergoing training in over 11 enterprises, which are considered to be of high public demand.
The Master Card Foundation provided the funding through Muni University which partnered with Community Empowerment for Rural Development (CEFORD) to spearhead the training business, technical and vocational institutions.
Some of the areas for training are phone repairs, poultry, bricklaying and joinery, plumbing, hospitality and events management, and vegetable growing under climate smart agriculture among others.
Majority of the youths are from Ayivu West and Vurra constituencies, Bernard Atiku, the former Member of Parliament for Ayivu Constituency on whose premises the training is taking place disclosed.
He promised to expand the facility that is near Sts Peter and Paul Seminary in Pajulu sub-county into a demonstration center for further skilling of the people.
He noted that whereas such trainings address the short term needs of the people, he would introduce cocoa with the backing of Russian investors as the long-term solution to the socio-economic challenge of poverty.
“I have a piece of land which I am going to use for setting a cocoa nursery bed and demonstration farm to teach people and supply them with seedlings for planting,” Atiku said.
Robert Asianzu, the director of the Arua multi-purpose training institute said the project has already enabled them to create a new campus for the institute.
After three months of rigorous training, the students will undergo a directorate of industrial training assessment and be issue certificates.
“With such skills, we expect these youths to go out and be productive people who are self-reliant,” he said.
Hellen Ezaru, the head of the agriculture department is already looking beyond the current enrolment to ground the future students in things like piggery for which she has been tasked to set up a unit.
It is the first tie agriculture has been introduced at Arua multipurpose training institute and this widens the scope of the courses available
