This was a World Bank supported project in collaboration with UPLIFT Development Foundation with empowered several caregivers to provide adequate care for certified orphans and vulnerable children in identified communities in Ogun State. The chosen caregivers are empowered through capacity building and training and provided with the required knowledge and skills necessary to provide quality, gender sensitive care and support to the vulnerable orphans allocated and committed into their care for an agreed period of 18 months. The chosen beneficiaries were trained in different vocational skills like automobile technical works,hairdressing and sewing and given empowerment tools and certificates at the end of the stipulated period and assisted to become self-sufficient from thereon . On the 31st of October, 2015,the beneficiaries of the first 18-month, intervention programme were celebrated as they graduated at the Progress Hall, South-west Resource Centre, Oke-Mosan in Abeokuta in Ogun State.