Ms Anna Armo-Himbson, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA), has expressed concern over the involvement of the youth, especially the males, in betting and illegal mining in the Ellembele District as against learning positive life skills. https://www.modernghana.com/news/677306/unemployment-forced-kibi-youths-into-galamsey.html
She said the search in communities for the Ellembelle youth to learn some skills or trade always produced more females than males and called on the young men to develop interested in skills acquisition than engage in illegal mining, which was not sustainable.
Ms Armo-Himbson told the Ghana News Agency in an interview on the sidelines of a graduation ceremony for some 935 people in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region under the livelihood empowerment project.
The project, carried out in partnership with Eni Ghana, Vitol, and Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, is a two-year integrated development intervention aimed at providing entrepreneurship, financial literacy and technical skills among others to the youth in the district.
This falls under the Economic Diversification Building Business Project. https://mypublisher24.com/ban-all-forms-of-galamsey-religious-leaders-to-akufo-addo/
She said the Economic Diversification Building Business Project targeted women, youth, and marginalised communities.
The communities include Sanzule, Krisan, Eikwe, Bakanta, Atuabo, Anokyi, Asem-nda, Ngalekpole, Ngalekyi and Baku in the Ellembelle District.
The project had chalked many successes to reduce poverty and address the many socio-economic challenges among Ellembelle youth the catchment area of Eni Ghana, an oil and gas company.
The beneficiaries received entrepreneurship and business management, occupational safety, health, and environmental management training.
Others are compliance and regulatory support, technical skills training, branding, and packaging, and 21 were assisted to formalise their businesses with the Registrar General’s Department.
The graduation ceremony celebrated the accomplishments and resilience of the beneficiaries who successfully completed their apprenticeship and advanced technical skills programmes.
Mr Kwasi Bonzo, the Ellembelle District Chief Executive, expressed enthusiasm about the training and advised the beneficiaries to value the skills acquired “as their share of the oil monies.”
Source: GNA