Taimako Plant and Herbal Medicine to bring head porters home

Taimako Plant and Herbal Medicine to bring head porters home
Rural-Urban Migration has become a plague that bedevils the country and North in Particular, retarding socio-economic development in the north resulting to the mass movement of the youth to the Southern sector in search of non exiting jobs. Several efforts by Government, Non-Governmental Organizations, Philanthropists and stakeholders to end this canker are yielding results over the past decades.
For this reason, Taimako Plants and Herbal Medicine has taken a bold initiative to embark on a sensitization program in Accra and Kumasi to educate head porters otherwise known as Kayayee to see the need to come back home to exploit the numerous potentials in farming in the north.
Hajia Hajara Ibrahim Taimako, Head of Food Processing at the Taimako Plant and Herbal Medicine made this revelation in an exclusive interview with Fiila News at her office in Tamale.
According to Hajia Hajara, the company has taken the initiative as it’s cooperate social responsibility to ensure that those women down south must return home for good to ensure the development of the north. The company which is into herbal medicine, food processing and others has products such as dry mango chips, Yam and Cassava flour, dry plantain chips, dry coconut chips and a lots of variety of traditional herbal medicine.
Hajia Hajara said the initiative taken by the company came to reality due to the buffer stock which she believes will employ a hold lot of people in the north.
She indicated that most women especially head porters go through a lot of ordeal situations before making a living.
She therefore appealed to parents to advise their wards and wives to come back home saying that home sweet home.
She called on Government, Non-Governmental Organization to join hands to eradicate the canker from the north and get employable skills for those vulnerable.