Thirty trainers of mobile phone repairers from all over the Eastern Region graduated from a training programme organized for them under the Local Enterprise and Skills Development Programme (LESDEP) in Koforidua, on Wednesday.
The group is expected to collaborate with LESDEP to help train other unemployed youths in their various districts and communities in mobile phone repairs and servicing.
In a speech read on behalf of the Eastern Regional Minister, Dr Kwasi Akyem Apea-Kubi, he explained that the programme was aimed at creating employment for the Youths to help reduce poverty among young people in the country.
He noted that unemployment often led to poverty which could result in chaos, anarchy and mayhem that could destabilize a government. Dr Apea-Kubi said the Government had therefore taken several measures to reduce unemployment in the country.
He said the Project aimed at training 20,000 unemployed people by 2012 in entrepreneurial skills in areas like agriculture, construction, architecture, fishing, agro-processing and packaging, fashion, beauty care, computer repairs, local food and catering.
Dr Apea- Kubi urged graduates of the Mobile Phone Repairs and Servicing Module to ensure that they deliver quality service to their clients. Dr Smile Dzisi, of the Koforidua Polytechnic and a consultant to LESDEP, advised the graduates to be patient and tolerate their prospective trainees and reminded them that Ghana was counting on them and so they should not fail the nation.
Mr Seth Otchere, the Eastern and Volta Region Zonal Coordinator of LESDEP, reminded the graduates that they would be partners of the project and said they were trained to develop businesses, which must grow.
Mr Joshua Atta Mensah, Eastern Regional Coordinator of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), urged the graduates to take maximum advantage of their training and ensure that what they had learnt benefited their communities.
According to the Eastern Regional Coordinator of LESDEP, Ms Fatahiya Zulka, the LESDEP programme is based on private �public partnership
She said when given the needed support by all stakeholders, it could enhance the socio-economic growth of the country through sustainable job creation within communities across the country.
Ms Zulka said LESDEP absorbed all the training cost of the graduates, which involved feeding, training and accommodation adding, LESDEP would depend on the dedication of the graduates to help train other unemployed Youths in their communities.
The New Juaben Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Alex Asamoah, who chaired the function, described the programme of LERSDEP as the �Better Ghana Agenda in motion�.
He appealed to LESDEP to include more women in the training programme.
Source: GNA
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