By Dennis Peprah
Abesim, (Bono), March 16, GNA – Some 10 young women have defied all the odds to undergone training on the use of earth moving machines, to fetch themselves jobs.
They were among the 65 trainees who passed out from three-week extensive hands-on training on the use of forklift, backhoe and wheel loader machines.
The RTM Services and Training Center, an employable skills training firm, organised the training held at Abesim, near Sunyani.
Addressing the graduation ceremony of the 12th batch of the trainees, Peter Nana Agyen, the Director of the RTM Services, said the training center was established two years ago and had since offered employable skills training to more than 800 young people.
He said most of these graduates had acquired gainful employment outside the country, with several of in Hong Kong, Dubai, Canada, Czech and China.
“It’s our vision to become a top-notch skill training center to support the government to tackle the teeming youth unemployment in the country,” he stated, saying “our training programmes are designed to equip individuals and organisations with the requisite skills and expertise needed to succeed in today’s fast-growing world”.
Describing President John Dramani Mahama’s youth apprenticeship and skills job for export programme as laudable, Nana Agyen said the Organisation as a training center was ready to partner twith the government to achieve this vision.
He therefore urged the unemployed youth to show interest and leverage on the government’s National Apprenticeship Programme to acquire employable skills training and to better their lives and also called for government support towards expanding the training modules of the center.
Mr Mustapha Omar Copson, the Bono Regional Director of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), commended the training center for its innovations and creativity, saying the government required such training support in her efforts towards job creation and poverty reduction.
He noted that about 75 per cent of the nation’s development depended on the youth, saying employable skills training held the key to the country’s progressive development.
Mr Copson reaffirmed YEA’s commitment and readiness to partner with the private sector in creating more jobs for the youth and asked the youthful population to also capitalise on and enroll themselves in the Agency employable skills training programmes.
“The agency was established for you and so let your presence be felt there so that we can all think outside the box, share business ideas and create jobs for ourselves”, he urged.
Nana Ansu Ababio, the Chief of Yawhima in the Sunyani Municipality also lauded the government apprenticeship programme, saying its implementation would create jobs for the young people to enable them to also contribute to meaningful development.
GNA
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