In a bid to foster youth entrepreneurship and create sustainable livelihoods, the Fanteakwa New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate, Duke Ofori Atta, in collaboration with the Ghana enterprises Agency, has presented start-up kits to over 100 apprentices in Osino in the Fanteakwa South District in the Eastern Region.
This, presentation, seeks to boost, promote, and encourage entrepreneurship among the youth and provide them with the essential tools to start their own businesses to contribute to local economic development.
Addressing the gathering, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate (PC) for Fanteakwa South Constituency, Duke Ofori Atta, who made the presentation stated that, the initiative aimed to aid the beneficiaries to expand their businesses.
He emphasized the importance to support and assist the constituents, especially the youth with tools and equipment to lead their self-supporting lives.
Mr. Atta used the occasion to advise them to take their businesses seriously by adopting measures to entice more customers and clients to realize their dreams in future to make life meaningful.
He also noted that the initiative would go a long way to help them in improving their businesses, and also assured his willinness in providing support to apprenticeship skills training to make them contribute their quota to the development.
Duke Ofori Atta urged them to vote for NPP to maintain and continue their good policies.
On his part, the Eastern Regional Manager of the Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA), Mr. Eric Obeng, on behalf of the Chief Executive Officer, Mrs. Kusi Nyanke Aryeh, expressed confidence in the beneficiaries’ potentials to build successful businesses.
He encouraged them to continuously improve the living standards of the constituency through skill training equipment, as well as empowering them to go into own self-engineering businesses.
Mr. Obeng admonished the apprentice to focus so as to make good use of the machines since monitoring officers will supervise their actions.
The beneficiaries, who had completed training in various skills of the apprenticeship, commended the PC, Mr. Duke Ofori Atta and Ghana Enterprises Agency for the support given them.
According to them, this assistance had come at the right time as most of these apprentices were planning to acquire new machines.
They said the donation would give the youth opportunity to enroll more to learn the skills, therefore, prayed and pledged their unflinching support to votes for NPP during December 7th election.
