Help youth to acquire vocational skills – Educationist

An educationist at Nsawam, Mr Emmanuel Ohene Kofi, has said that engaging the youth in early trading along the street sides as a stop-gap to family problems would only ruin their lives in the long run.

He has therefore called on the people of Adoagyiri-Nsawam to aim at long-term investment by helping the youth to acquire technical and vocational skills to enable them to become self-reliant.

Mr Ohene Kofi gave the advice when he took the Ghana News Agency round to inspect a three-classroom block, an office, a store and a computer laboratory project he is currently constructing for the Adoagyiri-Nsawam community at an estimated cost of GH¢35,000.00

He said it was his personal contribution towards the promotion of education in the area and that when completed it would provide training in draftmanship, computer and vocation training for students.

This would provide the young adults skills that would make them independent and also prevent them from engaging in menial jobs like selling of bread along the streets which sometimes put their lives in danger.

Mr Ohene Kofi said if the youth were well equipped with enough skills their ambition to search for greener pastures elsewhere would be a thing of the past, and appealed to non-governmental organisations to come to his aid for the early completion of the project.

Source: GNA