The Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (GIIF) has provided apprenticeship tools and equipment worth GHC 140,000 to the Sunyani Youth Development Authority.
Including quantities of electric sewing machines and other artisanal tools, the machines are to support the association in the implementation of its phase-two Integrated Skills Project aimed at providing employable skills training for vulnerable young people.
The association’s skill project covers kente weaving, smock sewing, fashion, cosmetology, bicycle repairs, auto-mechanics, bead craft, hair dressing (cream), hair dressing(braid), aluminum fabrication, solar energy technology, wood technology(carpentry) and visual arts.
Speaking at a presentation ceremony held in Sunyani, Ambassador Goerge Kumi, a member of the GIIF said he was optimistic the machines would well position the Association to enrol more of the teeming unemployed youth to benefit from the skill training.

He noted that employable skill training had the potential to tackle the nation’s unemployment situation, create wealth and reduce poverty and commended the association for its vision and innovation to helping to create jobs for the youth.

Mr Kumi, a former envoy to Nigeria under under former President John Agyekum Kuffour's administration entreated the youth to capitalize on the association's novelty, enrol and benefit from the training to fetch themselves jobs.

According to Mr Atta Akoto Senior, the President of the SYDA, the association formed in 2015,sought to break the barriers of impossibilities in it's quest to enhancing youth development in the municipality and parts of the Bono region.
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