Government
is spending 84 million Ghana Cedis under the Local Enterprises and
Skills Development Programme (LESDEP) to alleviate poverty especially,
among the youth, Dr Kwabena Duffour, Minister of Finance, has disclosed.
This
was because the youth constituted a strategic human resource of the
nation whose contributions to socio-economic development could not be
underestimated.
Dr Duffour, who was speaking at the passing out
ceremony for some 94 trainees of the LESDEP at Kumawu, in the Sekyere
Afram Plains of Ashanti Region, said the empowerment of the youth would
continually feature prominently in the development agenda of the Mills’
Administration.
The trainees who underwent two weeks training in
hairdressing, mobile phone repairing, barbering, catering, as well as
fashion and dressmaking were drawn from the Sekyere Afram Plains and
Sekyere-East Districts.
They received start-up kits including gas
cylinders, beauty care machines, motor bikes, barbering kits, mobile
phone repairing kits, sewing machines and six trucks to enhance their
livelihood.
The ceremony marked the first in the series of training programmes lined up by LESDEP for beneficiaries in the Ashanti Region.
Dr
Duffour said the LESDEP, registered under the auspices of the Ministry
of Local Government and Rural Development, is being implemented in
collaboration with the Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare and
other agencies.
It has so far opened offices in all the 170 metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies across the nation. |
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