The Institute for Industrial Technology (IIT) is a non-profit technical vocational school in Lagos-Nigeria. It offers top-quality hands-on practical skills training to Nigerian youths and adults mainly from the lower income stratum of society. The training received makes the participants easily employable and to advance rapidly in their careers. This empowers them to improve their family income, hence their socioeconomic condition. IIT is owned by the African Development Foundation (ADF), a non-governmental, non-profit organization with interest in educational and social welfare projects. Through the IIT, ADF aims to address the problems of poverty and youth unemployment in Nigeria while providing skilled manpower for the economy. IIT is open to male youths and adults, irrespective of their religious or ethnic affiliations. Although it started operations on March 27,2000. Over 500 participants go through one program or the other every year and the graduates have always secured employment shortly after graduation.