274 pass out from 3rd ‘Nye Awo kpakpa’ skills training

 The Member of Parliament for La Dade-Kotopon Con­stituency, Rita Naa Odoley Sowah, last weekend presented starter packs to 274 graduands who passed out from the third ‘Nye Awo Kpakpa’ Skills Training Programme.

The packs include gas cylin­ders, sewing machines and other items to assist beneficiaries start their businesses.

Participants went through a six-month intensive training in catering, soap making, cosme­tology, dress making, beads making and are currently writing the National Vocational Technol­ogy Innovative (NVTI) test.

Addressing the guests at the graduation ceremony, Ms Sowah said the goal of the skills train­ing programme was to ensure that everyone in the constit­uency regardless of their age, background and gender, was equipped with tools to thrive in life.

This raises the number of trained personnel to 554 after the first two editions produced 280 skilled individuals.

The MP urged the beneficiaries to use the skills acquired as a foundation to self-sufficiency.

In attendance were Mrs Habiba Kortumah, Municipal Education Director for LaDMA and a former Member of Parlia­ment (MP) for the La Dade-Ko­topon Constituency, Nii Amasah Namoale.

 By Victor A. Buxton