The African University College of Communications (AUCC) branch of TESCON in collaboration with Mass Foundation and Basline Pharmacy has registered over 60 youth within the Klortey Korley constituency in the Greater Accra Region for skills training.
The youth, dominated by women who were registered will be trained in bead making, Makeup, and Cooking among other skills development.
The initiative, according to information was meant to help address the rate of unemployment within the constituency.
The program was under the theme “Empowering Women Through Skills Training: A Tool to Break the Eight.”
Speaking as a guest speaker at the occasion, the Deputy Minister for Information, Fatima Abubakar, thanked the organizers for the program and was optimistic that it would go a long way to equip the youth, especially women with entrepreneurial skills.
She noted that it was time the youth across the country acquired entrepreneurial skills to reduce the rate of unemployment in the country.
For her part the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Women Organizer for the Klortey Korley Constituency, Mrs. Sheila Ankrah, advised the youth to take advantage of the program to create employment for themselves.
She also advised them to engage themselves with useful things and network with the right people for the benefit of their future careers.
“Don’t wait for a huge sum of money before you start up your businesses but rather begin with the little money you have at hand” she advised.
On her part, the Women Organizer of the Klortey Korley Wing of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Yaa Adepa disclosed that the program was meant to equip the youth with entrepreneurial skills to help them create their own job opportunities.
“It is about time women depend on themselves and stop relying on men for their survival. I therefore thought it wise to organize this program for the young women in AUCC and the Klortey Korley constituency” she stated.
Madam Adepa, who is also the Women Organizer of the AUCC Tescon said packaging is very important in business and therefore urged the participants to understand and practice it.
The Project Director of Baseline Pharmacy, Koramkye Collins Cofie, said: “We are very happy to collaborate with the organizers of the program, we have realized it would go a long way to help reduce the high unemployment rate in the country”.
The Baseline Pharmacy Project Director also called on beneficiaries to embrace the opportunity for their personal benefit and the country at large.
