A total of 94 youth in Kasoa of the Awutu Senya East Municipal of the Central Region on Saturday graduated after three-month of vocational training aim at equipping them with the skills to venture into their own businesses. They received certificates in glass fabrication, fashion design, make-up artistry and bridal dressing, news reporting, video shooting and editing. The free vocational skills training programme was put together by Laabarani Saakiya Charity Foundation, a Non-governmental Organisation, based in Kasoa and the Obaatanpa Radio Station in Kasoa on the theme, ‘Creating a positive financial well-being.
’ The Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya East and Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Mavis Hawa Koomson, donated 38 sewing machines, 30 hair driers as part of her contribution to equip graduands to start their own business. Addressing the gathering, the Chief Executive Officer of Laabarain Saakiya Charity Foundation, Alhaji Abubakari Mohammed, said the foundation was born out of ‘Laabarain Saakiya,’ a Hausa programme, which literally means “News of Change” that he hosts on the Obaatanpa Radio Station every Fridays to empower the youth and induce social change. He emphasized that the vocational training was intended “to give hope to the youth to become self-employed and be their own bosses without depending on anyone,” noting that Awutu Senya East Municipality with Kasoa as the capital had a fast growing population with burgeoning yout.
