GYAM-NYEP PASSES OUT 80 TRAINEES IN TAMALE

GYAM-NYEP PASSES OUT 80 TRAINEES IN TAMALE

Eighty five trainees who underwent six months skill and manpower training under a joint programme of the Ghana Young Artisans Movement and the National Youth Employment Programme have graduated in Tamale.
The graduants acquired skill and manpower training in various fields including hair dressing, dress, catering, batik, tie die and making.
Speaking at the ceremony, Hon. Abuga Pele, National Coordinator of the National Youth Employment Programme said that new model code named “The trade and vocation model” forms part of the NYEP’s change of focus mechanism to explore the potentials of the youth through self employment.
This, he said will lessen the burden on government’s financial stride to provide lucrative jobs for the youth of Ghana.
He hinted that plans were afoot to replicate the vocation and trade model and similar ones throughout the country and that by extension the disabled will be covered.
Abdul Fatawu Ibrahim, Executive Director of the Ghana Young Artisans Movement commended the President Mills led NDC government for its unrelenting efforts to develop the youth of Ghana through such interventions.
He also thanked donor agencies including Tools for self reliance in the United Kingdom, Simavi in the Netherlands, the Embassies and High Commissions of Britain and Canada in Ghana for their support over the years.
Mr. Fatawu revealed that GYAM since its establishment in 1995 has been involved in youth and community development through which water and sanitation facilities have been provided to peri-urban communities in the three regions of the north.
In a speech read on behalf of the Deputy Northern Regional Minister, Mr. Joseph Dasana, Chief Director at the Northern Regional Coordinating Council noted that the youth of Ghana deserved proper livelihood hence government’s zeal to make them productive through several models of the NYEP.
Mr. Sam Nasaamu Asabigi said government will resource the NYEP to implement its well tailored programmes especially in northern Ghana to curtail the mass exodus of the youth to southern Ghana in search of menial jobs.
The graduants received certificates and were supported with working tools to explore the acquired skills to benefit their community members.