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GEA TO TRAIN 19,324 YOUTH IN EMPLOYABLE SKILLS

GEA TO TRAIN 19,324 YOUTH IN EMPLOYABLE SKILLS
 
 
The Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA) is scheduled to train 19,324 youth with employable skills in various vocational and agriculture farm-based institutions in the Upper East Region.
The number formed part of 250,000 nationwide youth training programme by the GEA which targets 70 percent women and ten percent persons with disabilities.
Mr. Mohammed Bukari, the Upper East Regional Director of the GEA said this at the launch of the Mastercard Foundation Business in a Box (BIZBOX) Project in Bolgatanga.
He said the project was intended to equip the youth with skills and establish them with basic start-up kits to reduce, if not eliminate the unemployment problems in the country.
He explained that the BIZBOX was a scale-up of the Young Africa Works which was sponsored by Mastercard, an International NGO based in the United States of America and ended some years ago.
Mr. Bukari urged the youth to put the tools into good use to benefit them, and train others to create job opportunities.
“Those of you who refuse to use the kits, we will collect them from you and hand over to those ready to use,” he said.
The Upper East Regional Minister, Hon. Stephen Yakubu, who launched the programme, urged the youth in Ghana to be innovative and create wealth for themselves and the country as a whole.
He said it was time the youth psyched themselves up to venture into more creative businesses that could solve societal problems and create wealth for them as youth in Western countries had done with the creation of Applications such as WhatsApp, YouTube, TikTok among others.
“You need to sit down strategically and see what problems are facing people, and find solutions to them, and you will make money,” he said.
Hon. Yakubu said youth unemployment was a major concern of the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia-led-government since it assumed power in 2017.
As a result, the government rolled out a number of flagship programmes centered around youth development and creation.
He mentioned the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP), the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), One-District, One-Factor (1D1F), Youth in Afforestation, Free Senior High School and the establishment of the Commission of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET) to regulate and promote Technical Vocational Education among the youth in the country.