The acting Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Mr. Ignatius Baffour Awuah, has said technical and vocational education remains a priority for the government because it is a major antidote to the unemployment situation in the country.
He said training people with technical and vocational skills increased the country’s competitiveness at the global level and added that the National Vocational Training Institute’s (NVTI) ability to train and churn out highly skilled personnel would help meet the manpower needs of the country.
Mr. Awuah made these assertions at a graduation ceremony for students who had undergone training at various technical and vocational jobs.
Youth Center for entrepreneurial empowerment graduates trainees Youth Center for Entrepreneurial Empowerment (Y-CEE), an initiative of The Network Organisation for Youth Empowerment and Development (NOYED-Ghana), has graduated the third batch of its trainees in welding and fabrication. The 15 beneficiaries who graduated were presented with welding machines and tools to enable them to start and manage their own shops and be independent. The trainees were further awarded certificates by the National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) to enable them to apply for jobs as certified welders or upgrade by writing proficiency examination for higher welding programmes. The one and half years of training in welding and fabrication under the Y-CEE was funded by EMpower, the Emerging Market Foundation.
“It is a moment of great joy for me going home after many years of living on the streets of Accra, yet anxious about the reception from my family,” says Mohammed Gamado, aged 19 years.
Gamado, a native of Wa in the Upper West Region of Ghana and a former street child, will for the first time in many years celebrate the 2020 Christmas and the ensuing New Year with his family after spending many years living on the streets of Accra.
Sharing part of his life story with the Ghana News Agency in Accra, Gamado, said he migrated to live with his father who works in a local bank in Accra, but had to leave the home at age of 13, because he could not bear the maltreatment by his step mother, and the fact that his farther refused to do anything about his predicament after several reports to him.
EYEH Soup Kitchen fetes street children in Accra 27th Dec 2020 | Source: GNA
More than 150 street children in Accra, on Wednesday, received packed hot meals, some toiletries and clothing as Christmas gifts from the Enhancing Youth Education and Health (EYEH)Soup Kitchen , a Non-governmental Organisation.
Ms Adjoa Amana, a Director, EYEH Soup Kitchen, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said the Organisation extended its benevolence each year, to street children in Kantamanto, Kwame Nkrumah Circle, Kaneshie, but COVID-19 restrictions had limited the outreach this year. We are this year, limiting our gifting to those around the Tema Station who have gathered at the Efua Sutherland s Children s Park and others at the Opaebea slums, Ms Amana said.
RAINS empowers 554 girls with vocational skills 16th Dec 2020 | Source: GNA
A total of 554 highly marginalised girls in the Nanumba South and Kpandai Districts of the Northern Region have acquired self-employable skills to empower them economically to earn living.
The girls first went through literacy, numeracy and life skills sessions for six months and then transitioned to the vocational skills training for another six months in the areas of beads, soap and sandals making, and hair braiding.
This intervention was under the Strategic Approaches to Girls Education (STAGE) project being implemented by the Regional Advisory Information and Network System (RAINS), a non-governmental organisation, with funding from Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office.