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• An artist’s impression of the Prosper Life Career Institute when completed
• An artist’s impression of the Prosper Life Career Institute when completed

NGO constructs vocational training institute at Tepa

Kids Prosper Kids (KPK), a-non-governmental organisation based in the United States of America, has cut the sod for the construction of a vocational and technical training institute at Tepa in the Ahafo-Ano-North District in the Ashanti Region.

Estimated to cost $2.04 million, the school to be christened “Prosper Life Career Institute (PLCI) when completed, would help provide employment opportunities for young adults through hands-on skills training.

The institute will offer courses in sewing, carpentry, masonry, bakery, welding and fabrication, and subsequently introduce health-related courses such as Dental Assistance.

The group is in consultation to partner the Council for Technical and Vocational Educational Training (COVET), and other licensing bodies to help facilitate the accreditation of programmes that are relevant in today’s world market.

Sod cutting

The Founder of Kids Prosper Kids, Mrs Kimberli Brackett, yesterday led a delegation from the US for a symbolic sod cutting ceremony for the project which had already commenced and at the foundation level.

Also present at the ceremony were the Ankobeahene of Tepa, Nana Amoateng Tuffuor, the Municipal Chief Executive of Tepa, Mrs Matina Appiah-Nyantatyi, and some members of the Ghana Board of Kids Prosper Kids.

The project is expected to be ready for use in 2023.

Founder

Mrs Brackett commended the Tepa Traditional Council for giving out a 10-acre plot free of charge for the project.

The founder, who is a Class 5 Mathematics tutor in the US, said the initiative to set up the school was borne out of her pupils’ generosity towards deprived children in Ghana, hence the establishment of Kids Prosper Kids in 2017.

She said the institute sought to provide innovative technical training to develop entrepreneurship with relevant employment skills, adding “This will create leaders of influence who will positively transform the people and future of Ghana,” Mrs Brackett said.

Headgear, soap making

The MCE of Tepa, Mrs Appiah-Nyantatyi, was grateful to the NGO for choosing Tepa for such an educational complex.

She gave an assurance that the assembly would continue to render the needed assistance in ensuring that the projects came to fruition.

The MCE appealed to the KPK to include headgear and soap making into their offered courses, adding that those two were demand-driven in the area.

“There is enough raw material here in the making of soap,” she said and explained that because of lack of expertise, the materials were exported to Benin and other neighbouring countries for ‘pea nuts’.

Commendation

For his part, the Ankobeahene of Tepa, who read a speech on behalf of the Tepamanhene, Nana Adusei Atwenewaa Ampem, commended the NGO, saying that vocational training was key and relevant in today’s world.

He urged the youth of Tepa and its environs to take advantage of the opportunity to enrol in the school to learn employable skills.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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