Over fifty women in the Okaikwei North Municipality in the Greater Accra Region have ended a day’s skill training programme in the preparation of local drinks.
The exercise is part of an elaborate plan to make the participants including Persons With Disability (PWD’s), Women Groups and individuals to be economically independent and beneficial to their communities.
The event, under the auspices of the Social Welfare and Community Development (SWCD) Unit of the Okaikwei North Municipal Assembly (ONMA) saw about sixty participants drawn from all the eleven electoral areas receiving training on the preparation and packaging of Sobolo and Lamugee (both local drinks).
Mary Kafari, Unit Head of SWCD in the Okaikoi North Municipality touching on the Theme: “Equipping Women Through Entrepreneurship And Employable Skills” said the focus of the program is to train the women in businesses that does not require huge capital to start.
She was optimistic that the participants will use the skills acquired as capital to start their businesses and also train others to be beneficiaries’ of the knowledge acquired.
Earlier, Ms Kafari also sensitized the participants on child protection issues.
She indicated that whether it is a mistake or intentional, children must be taken care of by their parents’ stressing that it is wrong for children to engage in child labour.
To the Unit Head of SWCD in the Okaikoi North Municipality, even if children will be engaged in any child lobour, the said activity must correspond with the age of the child.
On correcting children for wrongdoing, Ms Kafari maintained that punishments meted out to children must not cause deformity to them.
She advocated the inclusion of the views of children into the decision making process of families.
Madam Vivian Archil, the Head of the National Commission For Civic Education (NCCE), in the Municipality taking the trainees through the ongoing SIM Card registration exercise said it is necessary for the participants to have their Ghana Cards.
She said with the Ghana Card, the trainees have to start the SIM registration process and go to their network providers to complete the processes stressing that the participants risk losing their SIM cards when the exercise is over next year.
Madam Archil urged the trainees to register their SIM Cards on time in order to avoid rush when the closing date for doing so is near.
She disclosed that the reason for the SIM registration is to avoid SIM-related criminal activities in the country.
Source: By Kofi Yirenkyi
