The Manna Education and Development Foundation, a charitable organization has presented working tools and equipment valued GHC 60,000 to some young people in the Sunyani Municipality of the Bono region to undergo employable skills training and fetch themselves decent jobs.

The items comprise 12 sewing machines, hair rollers, dryers, tables, plastic chairs, mechanical and electrical tools and gadgets and apprenticeship working boots.

Mostly young girls and nursing mothers between ages 15 and 25 years, the foundation also paid the apprenticeship fees ranging between GHC 1000 and GHC 1,500 for the 22 beneficiaries selected from Kotokrom and Yawhima in the municipality.

The foundation, established by Dr Janet Baah, a United Kingdom based Ghanaian Counselor at the UK's Lewes Council in 2022, also presented a laptop computer as well as exercise and text books to two needy students in the area.

Speaking in an interview with Sompa FM on the sidelines of a short ceremony held at Kotokrom said, the economic situation around the glove required that every wealthy citizen home and abroad supported the government and contributed his/her quota towards job creation and poverty reduction.

Doing so, Madam Takyiwaa, the spokesperson for Dr Janet Baah said the government would be able to tackle the rising youth unemployment in the country and ameliorate the socio-economic lives of the people.

She said the foundation had started registering interested young people at Abesim, Atronie and their adjoining communities in the municipality and would soon donate similar items to them.

"The foundation has secured a large parcel of land in the municipality and very soon it will begin work on the construction of an Employable Skills Training Centre to provide free training for interested young people to better their lives", she stated.

Source: Ghana/Sompaonline.com/K. Peprah