The annual Laity Council Workshop/Seminar organized by the Catholic Laity Council of Ibadan Archdiocese will hold on Saturday, 9th November 2024 at 10:00am.

 The event is scheduled to hold at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Catholic Chaplaincy, UI Ibadan.  The theme for this year’s workshop is “Sustainable Development”. Other outlined sub-topics of the workshop include: 

Earning leverage income and Sustainable financial empowerment scheme. Also, as part of the activities for the day, there will be a skill acquisition program whereby the participants shall have the opportunity to learn the production of people’s daily needs: Detergents and Disinfectants.

 The objectives of the seminar as stated by the Archdiocesan Laity Council through the Workshop Committee Chairman, Dr. Cyril Osigwe are:

 a. To provide a veritable platform for the laity for easy access to financial resources for business purposes in the form of grants, donations and soft loans. 

b. To train participants in practical skills required to develop good and implementable business plans and proposals. 

 c. To bring funding sources closer to beneficiary through direct and personal interactions. 

d. To encourage more lay faithful to go into entrepreneurship and become job-creators. 
e. To promote the formation of laity cooperative to pull resources required for business purposes. 

f. Helping people to reach their financial goals. 

g. To bring cash flow budgets into balance, order and fix credit reports, reduce debts. 

 The facilitators are Mr. Mike Osinachi Okoro and Mrs. Iyabo Mabel Ojogbede. 

 For the production of Detergent and Disinfectant. The resource person is Mrs Salau Olufunke Oshin. 

 Parishes and lay organizations are therefore enjoined to mobilize their parishioners and members to attend the programme. Three delegates are expected from each parish and lay organization.