POTENTIALS OF ADIRE WORKSHOP IN WEALTH CREATION AMONG THE YOUTHS

Abstract

Informal educational skills acquisition centers serve as platform for training, employment and sustainable economic development; offers opportunity to exploit and tap from indigenous knowledge system. And given the very high unemployment situation among the young people in Nigeria, the need for the Adire workshop can be better appreciated. The workshop took some young people through the rudiments of resist dyeing fabric technique to create avenues for them through which they can create wealth and be self-reliant. Through participatory approach, they learn the various stages to producing very aesthetically appealing fabrics. This is in addition to putting them through the different materials and the different designs possible. The people believe that if governments at all levels can intervene to provide funding by way of cheap loans, unemployment amongst the youths would have been frontally attacked for the better.

Key words: Resist Dyeing, Adire, Entrepreneurial, Wealth Creation.