Tamale: President Mahama launches Nationwide Apprenticeship Programme
President John Dramani Mahama has emphasised that the Nationwide Apprenticeship Programme will create over 500,000 jobs to bridge the youth unemployment hole within the nation
In line with him, the newly launched programme will afford the beneficiaries the chance to be taught immediately from skilled grasp craftsmen and girls throughout numerous trades together with tailoring, welding, hairdressing, carpentry, auto mechanics amongst others.
Talking on the launch of the occasion in Tamale on April 30, President John Dramani Mahama, underscored the significance of the programme and admonished the youth to reap the benefits of it.
“The problem we face right now is a rising youth inhabitants with restricted expertise. Ghana is blessed with a vibrant and youthful inhabitants but too lots of our younger residents discover themselves battling unemployment.”
“We can’t and won’t stand by whereas our younger persons are denied the chance they might want to thrive. This initiative is a testomony to our unwavering dedication to investing in our most crucial features of our nation that’s our youth,” he stated.
He emphasised that full funding of 300 million cedis has been allotted within the 2025 price range to begin the Nationwide Apprenticeship Programme.
“The Nationwide Apprenticeship Programme is designed to be inclusive, and we now have stated that at the very least 45 p.c of the apprentice have to be ladies, 5 p.c individuals with disabilities and particular consideration to be given to the marginalized and fewer privileged.”
“Full funding of 300 million cedis has been allotted within the 2025 price range by the Finance Minister for this programme and so isn’t a kind of initiatives that authorities will rush to begin,” the President stated.
For his half, Minister for Youth Growth and Empowerment, George Opare Addo, emphasised that the programme will guarantee job creation to bridge the unemployment hole.
“Every apprentice will obtain stipends for transportation, starter kits and certificates,” he introduced.
The Nationwide Apprenticeship Programme, is one in every of authorities’s strategic initiative below the Ministry of Youth Growth and Empowerment, aimed toward offering free technical and vocational coaching to younger individuals as properly equipping them with expertise for self-employment.
It additionally supplies a possibility for the youth, to be taught immediately from skilled grasp craftsmen and girls throughout numerous trades, together with tailoring, welding, hairdressing, carpentry, auto mechanics amongst others.
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