A MULTI-million youth training centre to train semi-literate and uneducated youth within Ashaiman and its environs is to be constructed in the municipality.
The project, which is being initiated by the Holy Gabriel Anglican Church, is to afford the youth an opportunity to develop entrepreneurial skills, as well as reduce unemployment within the municipality.
The project, which is estimated at GH¢50,000, would have multi-purpose classroom blocks to be used for instructions, an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Centre which is equipped with high speed internet connectivity, a conference hall, lawn tennis court and bookshop, among other facilities.
A four-acre land has been acquired to begin constructional works on the centre and a vicarage for the church.
The parish priest in charge of the church, Reverend Father Kwasi Ellis, disclosed this to the Daily Graphic.
He indicated that the absence of entrepreneurial centres in government institutions across the country to train semi-literate and unemployed youth to be independent had contributed immensely to the high unemployment and illiteracy rate in the country, and this, according to Rev Ellis, had contributed considerably to the youth’s involvement in negative social vices. “It is for this reason that the parish has decided to embark on productive projects to engage them, as well as re-directing them towards serving God,” he remarked.
He regretted that Ashaiman, which is currently estimated to be populated with about 250,000 people showing an increase of 50,000 since the last census in 2000, was one of the poor communities among urban slums in the country.
He appealed to the government and the private sector to formulate programmes and projects that would go into creating investment opportunities to equip the youth within the municipality to develop and maximise their potential.
Rev Ellis challenged political leaders to redirect their focus on material gains into improving the lives of the youth, who are the nation’s heartbeat.
He also cautioned the youth to give a new definition to life’s perception as they strove in their various ways to please God’s purpose of creation.
He charged Ghanaians irrespective of their ethnicity, political affiliation or religious denomination to serve God righteously as life without Christ was like possessing a vehicle without having access to fuel product to enable one to move around.
The Holy Gabriel Anglican Church, which was established in 1983 as part of its efforts to complement the government’s efforts in the provision of education, has also established a junior high school in addition to its basic school.
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