ARTISANS SUPPORT SCHEME (ASS) - BTA FOUNDATION

ARTISANS SUPPORT SCHEME (ASS)

Empowering people means enabling their access to the structures and knowledge which support a minimum income and standard of living. Many women do not have access to the value of their care giving work: ensuring financial supports for caregivers would help to eradicate poverty of women and men caregivers.

To maintain control over the financial aspect of their lives, skills acquisition remains the basis for poverty eradication. A level above skills acquisition, there should be tutorials classes on how to covert learnt skills to a marketable one and a source of income generation. At the tip of their empowerment cycle, a course on financial literacy should be taught to them. This will mark the pinnacle of their empowerment. Creating a system where empowered people also feel the need to empower others will lead to poverty eradication subsequently.

Teaching people to use their own knowledge and abilities will always be the best remedy

for problems relating to poverty or any other condition. Just like the old adage "teach someone to

fish, and he will have food for a lifetime".

1.      This Scheme shall be available once in a year.

2.      This category of admission shall be between 1^st and 30^th January of every year.

3.      Lectures/Trainings shall commence on 1^st February of every year.

4.      The first batch of graduands shall be on 23^rd December of each year.

5.      All students or trainees would be expected to report daily at the BTA Foundation office by 8:30 am before reporting at their respective classes by 9am.

7.      All enrollees are not allowed to be truants at their designated Training centres.

8.      Any enrollee that is absent for two days in a week shall get a query from BTA Foundation.

9.      Any enrollee that gets three queries throughout the Scheme shall be expelled or shall be made to be trained for Two years, and shall repay the Five Thousand Naira registration fee for the Second year.

10.  There shall be assessment for all students/trainees between 1^st October and 30^th November of every year.

11.  All trainees and enrollees are expected to submit their Training Assessment Report/Certificate enclosed from their Trainers on the First Monday in December of the year of enrolment.

12.  BTA Foundation shall present empowerment supplements to the graduands upon their graduation and certification in their respective classes which shall be refundable monthly to BTA Foundation by installment for One (1) year certain.

13.  The supplements shall range from Fifty Thousand Naira (N50, 000) to One Hundred Thousand Naira (N100, 000).

14.  BTA Foundation shall enroll 200 students annually under the ASS Scheme.

-          REQUIREMENTS FOR ASS

i.                    ASS Registration Form

ii.                 Must have completed at least Primary School Education.

iii.               2 passport photograph.

iv.               Guarantors’ Form.

v.                  Guarantors’ Drivers’ License/Voters’ card/National I.D Card

vi.               BTA Foundation ASS identification card.

vii.             Affidavit as to good conduct, punctuality, rules and regulations compliant and goal pursuit throughout the training period attested by the Chief of your Compound or a Notary Public.

viii.          Proposal upon graduation which must be submitted on or before 1^st of December of the year of graduation.

ix.                Acceptance form by the Trainer.

x.                  You must be a Kwaran and from Irepodun Local Government which could be proved by state of origin/Voters’ card.

xi.                Enrollees shall pay a registration fee of Five Thousand Naira (N5, 000) only.