Richard kwame Sefe hands over 700 apprentices to craft masters and madams

The Member of Parliament for Anlo constituency, Hon. Richard kwame sefe has handed over, 700 apprentices to crafts masters and madams in his constituency, as part of initiatives to create employment for the youths.

The initiative dubbed, Skills Training Apprenticeship Program, is expected to help mitigate poverty in the constituency. The MP launched this 2-3 year intensive Skills Training Programme at the back of a UNICEF research conducted in 2019, which showed that about “6.8 million were assessed to be poor while 2.4 million were also considered to be poorest of the poor in the country-Ghana”.

According to him, he is ready to make conscious efforts such as what we observed today, June 6, 2021, as he enrolls 700 of the youths in skilled training.

“It may interest you to know that these trainees are the Non-formal Educated ones. That, there are other plans in the offing to train some other youths in Ho in other formal skill training programmes which is scheduled for this June/July. Again, preparatory works are the offing to train about 40 youths in Commercial Welding and Fabrication in the Anloga and Tema. My dream is that by the end of my first term, about 1000 youths should become Master/Madam craft persons within my constituency.”

Richard Kwame Sefe

Speaking at the launch of the initiative, Hon. Richard Kwame Sefe indicated that the program will cost his outfit GHC840,000 and he has therefore appealed to Government, NGOs, groups and any other association to contribute to the success and development of his beloved constituency.

“As result, I have engaged some specialists who came to screen 2,400 constituents’ eyes, dispensed 1,100 medicines, gave out 650 reading glasses and operated 363. I have also identified some elderly poor people in the Constituency that I have begun to support in terms of provision of food items though very sparingly for now.”

Richard Kwame Sefe

The Chairman of the occasion, Togbi Dellah Avege, Anloga extended his appreciation to the MP and promised to support him to succeed. He, however, admonished the trainees to exhibit good characters and respect throw-out the period as cautioned masters and madams to be tolerant and not see the trainees as slaves.

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Source: raylizaghana.com