As Government of Ghana continues to ponder over absorbing the about 70,000 trainees who have passed out of the Nation Builders Corps (NABCo) program into an already choked public sector vis-à-vis the teaming unemployed graduates the Nation produces annually, artisanship and trading have been proposed as a solution to this menace.
Mr. Osman Ibrahim, Chief Executive Officer of Asomah Leather Works in Techiman and the Public Relations Officer (PRO) for Association of Small Scale Industries (ASSI) in Bono, Bono East and Ahafo Regions, believes that if graduates could put aside the pride and ego for white color jobs and get trained in leather works, fashion, technical or any of the artisan ship, then the problem of unemployment confronting Ghana would reduce drastically.
Mr. Osman Ibrahim gave this proposal in Techiman, when seventeen (17) persons living with disabilities drawn from three (3) regions across Ghana were graduating after receiving a one month free training in leather works under a program dubbed “Ghana Employment and Social Protection”.
Mr. Philip Ankomah, a Consultant for the “Ghana Employment and Social Protection” program in an interview disclosed that a total of over 300 PWDs are expected to receive free training in the Phase 1 of the project and will be provided with Startup kits/tools to set up their own businesses.
Finally, some beneficiaries who received the free one month training in leather works shared their experiences to the media, indicating it would go a long way in improving their livelihoods.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Kwabena Nyarko Abronoma
