Over 200 unemployed graduates and youth oversubscribed and enthusiastically converged at the Accra College of education to participate in the Accra version of the pilot phase of the Graduate Support Project (GSP) which is aimed to provide skills development and alternative opportunities for graduates and the youth in soap making, snail farming, and mushroom farming, intensively and practically.
As part of the project, an additional training will be provided for the participants, in financial management and accounting, bookkeeping, branding and advertising, basic marketing principles, and social media marketing.
The project which is an initiative of the Association of Graduates in Skills Development-Ghana (AGSD-GH), formerly the Unemployed Graduates Association of Ghana (UGAG) in partnership with the Office of the President - Youth Engagement Office, seeks to train over 5000 youth across the country.
However, the pilot phase of the project began on Thursday, February 3, 2022, at Kpeve in the Volta Region before moving to Accra on Thursday, February 10, 2022. After evaluation and assessment of impact of the two training programmes, the final pilot phase will take place in Kumasi and Koforidua on a date yet to be announced.
At the end of the pilot phase, some 450 participants are expected to benefit from this free training and be given starter kits to start their businesses.
The training programme comes at no cost to participants as exclaimed by Mr.Desmond Bress-Biney, President of the association indicating that their major challenge has been the oversubscription and that, he hopes they will make good use of the free starter packs they have been provided after the training.
For further information, kindly contact Desmond Bress-Biney, President,AGSDGH
on 0243765958 or
ugagghana@gmail.com.
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