Some 150 youth from the Navrongo Central constituency in the Upper East region have benefited from a skills development initiative undertaken by the Upper East Regional Minister Tangoba Abayage.
The vocational training and logistical support initiative according to her is aimed at supporting the youth in her constituency with the capacity to obtain for themselves sustainable sources of livelihoods.
The beneficiaries who were drawn from all 35 electoral areas of the constituency will be trained in vocations including tailoring or dressmaking, hair dressing and barbering.
As part of the initiative, Ms Abayage presented 70 sowing machines, 35 hair dryers and 35 barbering kits to the beneficiaries to enable them undergo apprenticeship and graduate to establish their ventures, while paying off the apprenticeship fees of all the beneficiaries.
Ms Tangoba Abayage who is also the New Patriotic Party parliamentary candidate for the Navrongo Central constituency explained that one of her major assurances to the constituents during her campaigns is the desire to build the capacity of young people in the constituency to cater for themselves with decent and sustainable jobs.
“I have been campaigning round the constituency and one if my key campaign messages is youth development. Work for the teeming youth that are roaming around and not working. It is of paramount importance to me that we get some form of jobs for our youth. Be it official work or handy work. It is in line with this that I decided to help the very poor in our communities. We have a lot of young girls and boys who would wish to have one form of trade or the other. Unfortunately, they can’t afford it and their parents can’t afford. My hand can’t reach everybody but my hand can definitely reach some,” she said at a short ceremony in Navrongo to present the training equipment to the beneficiaries.
She explained that two people were drawn from each electoral area to make up for the total number of 150 beneficiaries who would be put under the tutelage of experienced artisans.
Ms Tangoba Abayage further admonished the beneficiaries not to abuse the opportunity given them and sacrifice the gains of the support on political grounds.
