{"id":466368,"date":"2018-02-21T19:52:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/21\/yea-has-employed-19900-youths-within-a-year-ceo\/"},"modified":"2018-02-21T19:52:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:52:41","slug":"yea-has-employed-19900-youths-within-a-year-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/21\/yea-has-employed-19900-youths-within-a-year-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"YEA has employed 19,900 youths within a year \u2013 CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday, 21 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-21<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/19185162.295.jpg\" alt=\"Yea Boss1\" title=\"Yea Boss1\" width=\"295\" height=\"165\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Justin Kodua Frimpong, Chief Executive Officer of YEA<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1519242761_146_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) in its bid to curb the looming unemployment problem in the country has partnered key state institutions to create jobs.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Chief Executive Officer of YEA, Justin Kodua Frimpong, the agency with the help of the Ghana Police Service has engaged 15,000 beneficiaries unto the Police Community Protection Personnel Programme.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, he said the agency in collaboration with the Agriculture Ministry has been able to recruit 1,200 youths as Agriculture Extension Assistants to help farmers under government\u2019s Planting for Food and Jobs project.<\/p>\n<p>The YEA CEO also disclosed that through a partnership with the Ghana Post, 100 youths have been recruited under the graduate internship module.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is refreshing to add that, the Ministry of Inner City and Zongo Development outsourced the recruitment of 3,000 Arabic Instructor to the agency,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Frimpong who was addressing the press in Accra Wednesday also revealed that the YEA is about to roll out peculiar regional flagship projects across the country.<\/p>\n<p>This projects when successfully introduced, he said \u201cwill create extra 5000 jobs in the various regions\u201d.<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O5p1KrSnmBM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 57 updated by: 3 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Wednesday, 21 February 2018 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2018-02-21 play videoJustin Kodua Frimpong, Chief Executive Officer of YEA The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) in its bid to curb the looming unemployment problem in the country has partnered key state institutions to create jobs. 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