By Christopher Tetteh
Dumasua, Oct. 24, GNA – About 500 young people in the Sunyani Municipality have undergone a three-day employable skills training to fetch themselves decent jobs and better their socio-economic livelihoods.
The Give to Life Charity Foundation in collaboration with the G2 Foundation, non-governmental organisations organised the training, which took the participants satellite installation, production of powder, liquid soap, shower gel, shampoo, and detergent.
They were also taught how to make bridal fans, fascinators, biscuits, cakes, fresh yoghurt, chips, and brown sugar.
The training was in line with an alternative livelihood support programme initiative by Nana Ayebiafo Jnana, the Nkosuohene (development chief) of Dumasua.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on the side-lines of the training, Mrs Lady Dorcas Dadzie, the Chief Executive Officer, Give to Life Charity Foundation, said the training would create decent jobs for the participants.
They would be supplied with start-up tools and equipment to set up their own business.
Mrs Dadzie said she was optimistic that with the training the level of poverty and youth unemployment would reduce, and thereby control teenage pregnancy in the area too while making the beneficiaries self-reliant.
Madam Helena Kankam, the Public Relations Officer, told the GNA the Charity Foundation aimed at empowering women and vulnerable people in rural communities to live decent lives and also enhanced their socio-economic livelihoods.
The foundation also offers academic and skills training opportunities to enable vulnerable people to realise and utilise their potentials too by giving a complete skill-training package including business start-ups.
Madam Kankam said the foundation did so in partnership with Lolly Trendz, Transformation Scandinavian, GTLmedia, Home based TV and Bra Qwequ Media.
Mrs Gifty Nyarko, the Chief Executive Officer of the G2 Foundation said the training would be extended to benefit other vulnerable people in the municipality.
Nana Jnana, the development chief later told the GNA that he was committed to make life better for the youth in the area and promised to ensure that the majority of the young people get something worth doing to better their lives.
He advised the participants to take their training seriously to derive the optimum benefit.
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