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YouStart program kicks off in Pusiga District

Many young women in the Pusiga District are benefiting from the Government’s flagship youth entrepreneurial startup support programme, YouStart.

Date Created : 6/12/2023 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : Irene Kwakye/Ghanadistricts.com

Training also covers monetary management and other nodes essential to entrepreneurial enhancement, and beneficiaries in the Upper East Region are currently undergoing beginner phase training.

The World Bank assisted programme comes under the Ghana Jobs and Skills Project, which is designed to give life to the entrepreneurial aspirations of young Ghanaians, with a broadened startup support package that includes both financial and technical, targeting 50,000 youth.

The Bank is providing technical and financial support, and the Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA) is the implementing agency.

The programme would provide training and startup grants for the youth in their fields of expertise and includes training in workplace management modeled on the popular Japanese theory, Kaizen.

The people of Pusiga have ended its training for the first batch of beneficiaries of the YouStart programme.

The programme, introduced by the government of the day aims at equipping the teaming youth with employable skills that will enable them to become self-reliant in society.

The beneficiaries were mainly hairdressers and seamstresses who were awarded certificates of training.

The District Chief Executive of the area Abdulai Zubeiru, graced the occasion and entreated the beneficiaries to replicate the acquired skills in their places of work to maximize production.

He said the programme showed the Government’s premium on skills development and was sure to enhance the entrepreneurial competence of the youth and provide better quality jobs.

He further said, the second batch of the programme will soon be rollout.