The Center for National Culture, CNC, has climaxed this year’s Carl Oparebea Annual Marketable Skills Training with a call on government and other institutions to support the centre to initiate more vocational training to empower the youth to have employable skills.
About 100 women and children benefited from the training and were given certificates of participation.
The Marketable skills training programme provided hands-on skills to the women in hair braiding, fascinator and beads making, make-up, decoration as well as basic sewing.
Initiated in 2017, the training, a flagship project of the Centre is aimed at bringing hope to the doorstep of youth groups especially young girls and women who wish to acquire hands-on skills as a means of creating employment to become self-reliant.
It is also aimed at breaching the unemployment gap in the Cape Coast Metropolis and the Central Region at large.
In an address to the graduating women, the acting Central Regional Director of the Centre for National Culture, Madam Salamatu Alhassan said, the marketable skills training programme is in line with the core mandate of the CNC to promote the youth in arts and skills training.
She said it is globally accepted that skill training programs are avenues where individuals acquire practical knowledge of specialization for a livelihood.
“The responsibility of the Center of National Culture which is eager to promote youth in the art arena cuts across all aspects of education. She said.
She adds that the responsibility of the CNC cuts across every segment that makes the youth economically and socially vibrant.
To that end, she called on government to resource the centre.
“The responsibility of the Center for National Culture according to the Ghana cultural policy that was established in 2004 cut across every segment that makes a country. In view of the benefits I have mentioned, the Center appeals to the government of Ghana to resource all the centres across the nation to enable us to work effectively.”
She, therefore, advised the graduands to take the skills they have acquired seriously and make ends meet out of it.
“You all agree with me that practical training is very important, especially in the lives of the younger generation because there is little space in the government sector.”
The graduation ceremony was on the theme: “Promoting economic growth and development through arts and culture.”
Gracing the occasion were the Director of the Department of Social Welfare, Madam Monica Siaw who represented the Central Regional Minister, Madam Justina Marigold Assan, Prof Anamoah Mensah, former Vice Chancellor of University of Education Winneba, and some leadership from the Oguaaman Focus Group.
Also in attendance were representatives from the Ghana Police Service, the Ghana Prisons Service, media, and other stakeholders.
Source: Anthony Sasu Ayisadu/ATLFMNEWS
