A 13-Member Technical Committee formed in a joint collaboration between the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) and the TVET Service has been inaugurated in Accra on Tuesday 18th October 2022, to oversee the implementation of a YEA flagship project- Artisans Directory.
The Committee members drawn from the YEA are the Deputy Chief Executive (Operations) Alhaji Bashiru Ibrahim, YEA Artisans Directory Coordinator, Selassie Attipoe, Pearl Broohm and Wisdom Foli.
Others were Ernest Opoku Nti, Wahab Abdul Jawando and Fadila Ibrahim.
The TVET Service team was led by Mr David Prah, the Deputy Director-General (Operations), Mr Isaac Inkoom,
Engineer Juliana Nkrumah, Joyce Ackon, David Mensah and Engineer Christian Agorda.
In her welcome address the Director-General, Madam Mawusi Awitty, expressed satisfaction with the path the YEA was charting to support and promote the artisanal industry in the country.
She explained that since technical education feeds the artisans industry with the skilled labour required, it was important and prudent for the TVET Service to support such a worthy cause.
She said it was for that reason the Service had provided an office accommodation to the YEA on the TVET Service premises to serve as a Secretariat for the Artisan Directory.
Inaugurating the committee on behalf of the CEO of YEA Kofi Agyepong, the Deputy CEO in charge of Operations Alhaji Bashiru said the Agency is poised to shift from the traditional modules into skills training and acquisition to enable the youth to get sustainable employment.
The YEA Artisan directory will be a platform and virtual store for trained craftsmen and women (sculptors, carpenters, masons, tilers, hairdressers, shoemakers, fashion designers, plumbers, metal workers, mechanics etc) to market their trade.
It is an innovative platform that will provide sustainable livelihoods to youth with vocational and technical skills.
The YEA artisan directory will be an active database of Artisans (trained and certified).
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Kwabena Nyarko Abronoma
