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Unemployed youth to be
engaged in agriculture
Daaho (Ash), Jan 8, GNA - More than 500 unemployed youth in
the Sekyere West District would be supported this year to
undertake mechanized farming under the National Youth
Employment Programme (NYEP).
So far, 820 youth have been registered in the district for
the programme, out of which 95 have already been employed as
Community Teaching Assistants.
Twenty-five have been trained and recruited under the
sanitation and waste management component of the programme
and are working with a private waste management company.
Mr. Emmanuel Aidoo, the Deputy District Co-coordinating
Director (DDCD), said this when he addressed a passing out
ceremony for 15 female employable skills trainees at Daaho.
The trainees were taken through a two-week skills training
in soap, pomade and powder making using local raw materials.
The programme was funded by the Community-based Rural
Development Project (CBRDP), successor to the Village
Infrastructure Project (VIP) and the district assembly at a
cost of 36 million cedis.
Mr Aidoo said the NYEP and the CBRDP were two of many
government interventions that have been designed aimed at
finding a more workable long-term solution to the
ever-increasing youth unemployment.
He urged communities, irrespective of their political
affiliations, to join hands with government agencies that
have been tasked to ensure the success of these programme to
make sure the right thing is done.
Mr Isaac Osei-Asare, District Manager of the Business
Advisory Centre (BAC) of the National Board for Small Scale
Industries (NBSSI), said each trainee would be given a grant
of 4.5 million cedis as start-up capital.
Besides, he said, BAC with funding from the CBRDP would
continue to provide the trainees with business management
and advisory services to ensure that their enterprises
survive.
GNA
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