Youth to benefit from 5-year entrepreneurial training
Twenty-three thousand young people are to benefit from an entrepreneurial training project in the next five years, the Policy and Sustainability Specialist of Global Communities (GC), Mr Maxwell Agyei Ashon, has announced.
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He announced this at a stakeholders workshop in Accra. Dubbed “Youth Inclusive Entrepreneurial Development Initiative for Employment (YIEDIE),” the project is targeted at the youth between the ages of 15 and 24.
Global Communities is an international NGO which focuses on building the capacities of the youth globally.
Programmes
Mr Ashon said the youth would be trained in construction skills and various apprenticeship programmes.
Others, he added, would also receive training to become entrepreneurs in the construction and micro-enterprise sectors.
Beneficiaries of the project would further receive financial literacy education for the management of their respective businesses.
Beneficiaries
The project is being implemented in Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi, Ashaiman and Tema.
“We will target approximately 113,000 young people who have dropped out of school and living on less than US$2 a day,” he indicated.
Support
The Officer in charge of the Social Welfare Department of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Ms Mariam Mensah, pledged the assembly’s support for the project.
“We have been engaging with many civil society organisations in similar endeavours. We hope to get most of the school dropouts onto the scheme, particularly the kayaayei,” she stated.
