The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Foundation under its livelihood empowerment program has sponsored over 400 artisans in the central region to take part in this year’s National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) certificate examination.
The artisans totaling 444 were registered for the examination after they had undergone refresher training in dressmaking, auto mechanics, catering, electricals, interior decoration, floor tiling among other trades.
The head of the economic empowerment unit at GNPC, Kwame Kakari indicated that its economic empowerment initiative seeks to support Ghanaian youths to improve their livelihoods.
He disclosed that the Foundation after various interventions in the formal sector shifted its focus on the informal sector by initiating the skilled artisan’s project to give hope to the many less educated youths who need basic artisanal skills to make a living.
“What you are seeing here is called the skilled artisan’s project and it is a project which began in 2019. The idea is to train artisans who never got the opportunity to go to school like some of us. We want to give them the opportunity to be certificated and have something to do with their lives” he said.
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He further added that the training and certification programme will take place in other parts of southern Ghana subsequently and across all the other regions in the country next year.
“We believe that we have to train the next generation of artisans to be able to do some of these things. In all, we are doing two-thousand and fifty artisans throughout the country.
According to him, the selected regions within the southern zones include Central, Western, Greater Accra, Eastern, and Ashanti Region.
Source: Vera Siripi/ATLFMNEWS
