By
Abubakari Ibrahim Wangara, GNA
Wa, May 15, GNA – Two hundred and fifty (250)
youth from various districts in the Upper West Region have graduated in a
Digital Marketing and Entrepreneurship Programme organised by the National
Youth Authority (NYA).
The Programme, projected to engage 3,000
jobless youth nationwide, was unveiled in Wa in February, this year, with the
anticipation that it would create some 300 jobs for the youth in the Region.
It aims to equip beneficiaries with relevant
technology-driven entrepreneurial skills that could be applied on the internet,
especially social media, for marketing of products and services.
It is designed to help people to start their
businesses with virtual offices, a move aimed at cutting down the unemployment
rate in Ghana.
Mr Sulemana Mumuni, the Regional Director of
NYA, during the graduation ceremony in Wa, said though 300 youth were recruited
in the Region for the training, 50 of them could not complete the exercise.
“Those 50 are not serious and could not have
abided by the rules and principles of the training, so they advised themselves
to fall out, leaving 250.”
He said the Authority had instituted
far-reaching measures to ensure young people in the Region also benefited from
government’s flagship programme - Planting for Food and Jobs.
“We have organised a group named Youth
Planting for Food and Jobs Programme, in which 10 young people are kept in each
farm with each farm having 10 hectres of land,” he said.
Mr Emmanuel Asigri, the Chief Executive
Officer of the NYA, expressed joy that the youth availed themselves for the
training, which demonstrated the beginning of their achievements.
He described the Regional Director’s plans to
support the youth to go into Planting for Food and Jobs as a gleaming idea and
pledged his support for the initiative.
GNA