Meet Nigeria’s first female mechanic, Sandra Aguebor. An ambitious and hardworking woman walks and works in a man’s world and has made a huge success of it.
Sandra Aguebor is the founder of Lady Mechanic Initiative.
With the recent campaign by Aguebor, who is also the founder of Lady Mechanic Initiative, very soon, female motor mechanics might dominate the automobile industry in Nigeria.
Her group, which collaborates with MacAthur Foundation based in the United States, launched a catch-them-young programme “After School Club Project”. The aim of the programme is to prepare young female students of Lagos public schools for gainful employment.
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Recently, Aguebor has taken part in the induction ceremony of 30 female students drawn from Government Technical College in Agidingbi, Ikeja, Oregun Junior High School and Agidingbi Junior Grammar School.
Speaking at the event, she recalled her humble beginning as a motor mechanic. Aguebor started her apprenticeship in a motor mechanic workshop during her early days in secondary school and had never regretted this decision. She believes that according priority to technical skills would reduce the high unemployment in the country.
Sandra Aguebor
Aguebor said that her group established a partnership with the Lagos State Technical and Vocational Education Board to commence the programme. She noted that the project was introduced to the benefiting students at no cost.
“The inducted students are now pioneer members of the Lady Mechanic After School Club. The club is all about imparting technical skills to the young students at the early stage of their education in secondary schools. From JS 2 to JS3, they will be able to know how automobile works, how vehicles move, what makes the tyres roll and so on,” she said.
Aguebor noted that only students in the junior secondary school were selected for the project, so that when they get to secondary school, they would be able to make well-considered decisions on their future career.
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“I believe that science rules the world. But a lot of times, females are hard to find in engineering courses. The Lady Mechanic Initiative will bring technical skills to the doorsteps of secondary schools by giving them the practical knowledge of the course. This will help the female students to know that engineering is not difficult as they presume. Science is not only for men. By building this confidence in them at this stage, they will achieve a fulfilling career in engineering related courses,” she said.
Apart from the school project, the Lady Mechanic Initiative has been working to empower women to become professional motor mechanics, generator repairers, experts in household water pumping machine repairs, skilful drivers.
“We want to reduce social vices involving women by providing them with a sustainable means of livelihood. This will go a long way in reducing unemployment at the family level and its attendant social problems. We are contributing our quota to national development. We want to do more. This is just a pilot project. We intend to get the government involved in this project, as well as corporate bodies to see how we can reach out to many schools in the country,” Aguebor added.
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