Some of the beneficiaries
BRYAN Acheampong Foundation (BAF)
has launched its 2019 Youth in Apprenticeship (YIA) programme on how to become
a seamstress under the livelihood empowerment unit of the foundation.
The foundation is owned by Member
of Parliament for Abetifi, Bryan Acheampong, who doubles as the Minister of
State in charge of National Security. The foundation aims at helping his
constituents to acquire basic skills and training.
The Livelihood Empowerment Manager
of BAF, Anthony Mankona, speaking at the launch of the event, explained that
YIA has the potential to provide skills to young people, especially those who appear
to have been locked out of the mainstream education.
“The apprenticeship training
programme is a promising avenue to deliver skill training to the youth,” he
said, adding that 10 young people were selected from four communities in the
Kwahu East District to be trained in seamstressing which is fully sponsored by
the foundation.
The beneficiaries were provided
with BAF branded sewing machines, scissors, tape measures, threads, needles,
grey bafta, office pins, tailor’s chalk, machine oil, specimen albums, stools,
uniforms, among others, needed for their apprenticeship period.
The trainees who are expected to
undergo the three-year training had their customary fees paid by the foundation.
By Daniel Bampoe
