Aubrain Lyavuka attended FAO and UNIDO’s OYA programme that trains African youth for jobs in agriculture. He is now seeing great results and growing his fish farm in Ndola, Zambia.
Thirty-year-old Aubrain Lyavuka was working as a farm labourer but was interested in switching to a career in farming fish. Eventually an opportunity came up in the shape of an advert for aquaculture training posted by Zambia’s Solwezi Department of Fisheries.
He showed up for the course offered through the Opportunities for Youth in Africa (OYA) Programme, developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in collaboration with the African Union Commission. The Programme trains African youth for jobs in agriculture, especially through agribusiness and entrepreneurship development.
Aubrain attended an intensive training in Solwezi, Northwestern Province, with over 60 other young aspiring agripreneurs. Trainees received in-class learning plus the opportunity to raise fingerlings in four fishponds, two of which the trainees constructed themselves.
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