Resource centre for church inaugurated to equip women with employable skills
The Teshie Nungua Area Women’s Ministry of the Church of Pentecost in the Greater Accra Region has inaugurated a resource centre to train and equip young women with employable skills.
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The centre, constructed at the cost of GH¢ 420,000, has a training centre for beautification services, hair dressing, fashion design and catering.
So far, 70 young women from the church between the ages of 18 and 32 have been offered various programmes depending on their basic skills in the area of interest.
At the inauguration ceremony last Tuesday, the Teshie Nungua Area Women’s Ministry Leader, Mrs Cynthia Siaw Agyepong, said the centre had been equipped with the state-of-the-art laboratory and classrooms.
She said beneficiaries of the training programme would not pay any amount during their term of training that spanned six months to two years.
A view of the room for creative design
Mrs Agyepong said the resource centre, which is currently focusing on training the over 4,000 young women in the Teshie Nungua branch of the Pentecost Church, would be opened to other beneficiaries in the next few years.
“We are targeting about seven million young women from all areas of the church, including the educated and the uneducated,” she said.
According to Mrs Agyepong, the main objective for the establishment of the resource centre was to make young women self-sufficient and enable them to cater for the needs of their dependents.
A pictorial view of the hair dressing unit of the cenre
She, therefore, urged the young women in the church to take advantage of the project to make themselves more productive to their families.
Mrs Agyepong also commended the Head Pastor of the Teshie Nungua branch, Mr James Amaniampong, for his leadership skills in making the project a success.
Empowering young women
The Minister of Gender and Social Protection, Ms Otiko Afisa Djaba, commended the church for the effort to help empower young women with employable skills.
She said most of the abuses women went through could easily be addressed if “young women wean themselves from the dependency on men”.
Members of the Women’s Ministry and some invited guests touring the facility
“Most of the young women who are abused are mainly people who may not have any source of income apart from their men. If a woman is self-sufficient, she can take certain decisions about her wellbeing,” Ms Djaba said.
Over the past years, she said, efforts had been made by government to empower young women to become productive by creating programmes that would make them employable.
“One of our main goals at the ministry is to come up with programmes that will help empower young women to become more resourceful. We intend to undertake more of such programmes in the coming months,” she said.
A view of the training room for the young women
The Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Mr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, gave the centre GH¢20,000 to support the training of the first batch of the beneficiaries.