40 Girls benefit from vocational skills training by AG Care Ghana Madina District.
40 Girls benefit from vocational skills training by AG Care Ghana Madina District.
40 Girls benefit from vocational skills training by AG Care Ghana Madina District.
Assembly of God Greater Accra Region, Madina district Girls have benefited from a life skills and vocational training to help empower them and improve on their livelihoods.
The beneficiaries who were drawn from nine deprived communities were trained in soap, pastry and ‘Sobolo’ making, make-up as well as literacy and numeracy.
They were awarded certificates and an amount of money each to support them start their own businesses.
The initiative formed part of the Strategic Approaches to Girls Education project (STAGE) implemented by AG Care Ghana Life Line CTME Project in partnership with the Nederland and Incorporated with funding support from the Foreigners under the Nederland British, Girls’ Education Challenge.
Speaking at a ceremony to graduate the beneficiaries at AG church Madina the Executive Director Ernest N. Asigri said, the training would help the girls to create jobs for themselves and prevent them from travelling to the south for non-existent greener pastures.
He said the acquisition of employable skills by women was a major step towards self-sufficiency and, therefore, admonished women not to look down on themselves in life but rather believe in themselves to live a dignified life in the society.
“Government is doing its bit in one way or the other, we have the inclusion policy as far as education is concerned but the level to which this policy has been implemented is quite checkered, it has not been effective as expected.
“So we are calling on the government, other civil society organisations, other NGOs that can come on board to support all girls and AG Care Ghana Life Line CTME Project are pursuing. Let’s give them the needed support and I bet you they have abilities that they can live productive lives for themselves and the entire society,” he said.
Ernest N Asigri ( Executive Director ) also appealed to parents not to abandon their children who were out-of-school or had some form of deformities/ but train them in life skills so that they could be independent in life.
