{"id":393659,"date":"2017-06-01T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/01\/young-graduates-to-receive-business-skills-training\/"},"modified":"2017-06-01T13:00:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T13:00:30","slug":"young-graduates-to-receive-business-skills-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/01\/young-graduates-to-receive-business-skills-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Young graduates to receive business skills training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A human resource development company, Acreaty Management PLC, has initiated a programme to equip young graduates with entrepreneurial skills to enable them to create employment for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"\"> &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Under the programme, Acreaty will liaise with selected tertiary institutions to provide practical business and entrepreneurial skills to the young graduates in addition to the knowledge they have acquired from the academia.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Regional Managing Director (Africa) of the Acreaty Management PLC, Ms Elsie Appau, told the <strong>Daily Graphic<\/strong> after the launch of the youth development programme that the initiative was born-out of the galamsey menace which was a product of unemployable skills on the part of the youth, coupled with the unavailability of jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to avoid a situation where we have many pragmatic literates in the country. You have people studying agriculture and yet they cannot contribute meaningfully to the agricultural development of our nation. You have people studying economics but cannot contribute effectively to the economic discourse in the nation,\u201d Ms Apau explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>She said the initiative was also to reduce illiteracy among the youth in Ghana. \u201cThe issue is if we can read and write, why should we focus our time on mining our natural resources when we can put our efforts to very good and income earning activities for our nation,\u201d Ms Appau added.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Acreaty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The company, Ms Appau stated, would focus on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to reduce their over-dependence on the state, while engendering sustainable business development in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is only countries that have strong economic value and dependency on the private sector that will thrive. 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