Students undergo industrial attachment programme
A total of 14,450 students from universities and polytechnics have been engaged to undergo a month’s industrial attachment programme.
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One thousand two hundred of them will be deployed to the six metropolitan assemblies, 5,500 to the 55 municipal assemblies, while 7,750 will work in the 150 district assemblies.
About 2,000 of the students have been deployed in the Ashanti Region, out of which 200 have already been deployed to the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), with 100 of them being despatched to each of the seven municipal assemblies in the region, while 50 have been sent to each of the 22 district assemblies.
They are to work under the supervision of metropolitan, municipal and district environmental officers.
The internship programme is being implemented jointly by the Ghana Students Industrial Attachment Programme (GSIAP), a non-governmental organisation, and the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development to expose the beneficiaries to the working environment.
The interns are expected to be paid an allowance of GH¢200.
At the launch of the programme in Kumasi, the Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Yaw Adusei, encouraged the students to work hard at their respective workplaces.
He assured them that the government was doing all it could to promote and improve upon sanitation in the country and urged them to join the government in its fight against poor sanitation.
The National Co-ordinator of GSIAP, Mr Stephen Gyasi Quao, said the attachment programme was a voluntary exercise and the contribution of university and polytechnic students to community development during vacations.
He said GSIAP was a “unique pathfinder programme” designed to help students develop their career pathways through industrial attachment opportunities.
The Programmes Manager of GSIAP, Mr Nathaniel Ebo Nsarko, said the special focus of the programme was to provide opportunities in environmental protection and sanitation practices.
A gospel music artiste, Grace Ashie, an ambassador for the programme, asked the students to be public education interns who would embark on sustainable local sanitation awareness and behavioural change campaigns.
By Joseph Kyei Boateng
