By Mohammed Balu, GNA
Gwollu, (UWR), May 16, GNA – Mr Mohammed Adam Sukoaru, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sissala West has initiated a youth empowerment programme that seeks to offer the youth with self-employment skills.
The initiative dubbed: “The Mohammad Adam Sukparu Youth Project” (MASYET) was aimed at solving the youth unemployment in the area and addressing the poverty situation in the constituency.
It is targeted to train hundreds of the youth with skills in auto mechanics, welding and fabrication, fashion and design, and hairdressing for a three-year duration.
Mr Mohammed Adam Sukparu, launching the programme at the weekend said, “for each of these fields, my outfit would cover the entire training cost and provide the necessary tools and equipment to aid the training and subsequent practice of the profession”.
“Those into fashion would be enrolled and supplied with sewing machines, for those in the hairdressing, they would be given dryers and other equipment while those into welding and fabrication as well as auto mechanics services would also be provided with all the necessary tools”, he assured.
The MP admonished the beneficiary apprentices to take advantage of the rare opportunity and participate in the training with seriousness and devotion to achieve the optimum outcome.
He noted that, “We must understand that as we participate individually, the objective of our participation is collective, so we owe a collective responsibility to the rest of our community to come out of the programme as assets and not liabilities”.
He called for the support of others to ensure the successful implementation of the initiative, which would reduce youth unemployment, and dependency ratio, training entrepreneurs, mitigating social vices and improving household living.
Out of the 150 beneficiaries for the training, 68 seamstresses were given sewing machines to aid in the learning of their chosen profession.
Kuoro Abu Diaka Sukabe Ninia, the Paramount chief of the Buwaa traditional area who chaired the function reminded participants about the poverty situation in the area and must pay attention to the training.
He said the traditional council would continue to partner with the MP, government and other development partners to facilitate the development of the area.
GNA
