Young Ladies Selected In Northern Region to Benefit from Skills Training
Madam Regina Bauerochse Barbosa, GIZ-Ghana Country Director, enumerated that the project expectations are to see the young ladies establish their own businesses and employ other vulnerable ladies in the near future.
Joana Somiah 
Five Hundred and Fifty-Eight (558) Girls and young women in the Northern Region have been selected to learn various handwork by the Samira Empowerment and Humanitarian Projects in partnership with Network for Enterprise Development Learning through Sewing for Girls Initiative.
The project is being implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
At a Career Day and Registration event at the Aliu Mahama Sports Stadium, Ibrahim Nurudeen of Soireenews reported that the selected people have been divided into groups for the training.
Hajia Samira Bawumia during a brief engagement with the beneficiaries admonished them to take the training very serious in order to make a change in Ghanaian society.
She was optimistic that, the training would open many opportunity doors for the young ladies.
She further encouraged the trainees not to let down the project, but to make the Samira Projects and its partners proud.
In her address, Madam Regina Bauerochse Barbosa, GIZ-Ghana Country Director said the approach is the best way to reduce the unemployment rate.
"The approach adopted above is the way to go, we must train to meet the demands of the private sector because the private sector can create more jobs opportunities and employ".
She lamented that the youth have involved themselves in filthy activities as a result of indecent jobs.
"The Youth have been hit hard and have therefore resorted to all forms of dehumanizing and informal activities just to survive. In these circumstances, young girls and women are those most exposed and are therefore vulnerable.
Madam Regina mentioned that over a million new decent jobs must be created annually across the African continent, which she believed will largely engage the teeming youth.
Project advisor for the Network for Enterprise Development Learning through Sewing for Girls, Madam Akua Asantewaa said the initiative is aimed at empowering vulnerable young ladies to become self-reliant.
According to her, the project would continue to monitor and track the beneficiaries during and after the training to ensure that their income level is improved.
She revealed that the partnership has plans to support 300 Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the region to up their businesses.
Madam Akua mentioned that the beneficiaries have been categorized into different development modules which includes dressmaking, drawing, makeup, beads making, sandals making, and Kente weaving and many others.
She enumerated that the project expectations are to see the young ladies establish their own businesses and employ other vulnerable ladies in the near future.
Some of the trainers spoke to the news team about the challenges of the work and therefore appealed for government and non-governmental support.
Ibrahim Nurudeen
