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Stories by Bernice Bessey
As part of the government’s social intervention to tool youths of the various Zongo communities in the country to acquire the requisite technical and vocational skills, the Zongo Employment and Entrepreneurial Development (ZEED), a module under the Ghana Youth Entrepreneurial Development Authority (GYEDA), has presented the first set of equipment to 670 hairdressing trainees to successfully undergo training.
The beneficiaries were drawn from four communities, namely Nima/Maamobi, Madina, Sabon Zongo and Ashiaman, where the module is being implemented in the Greater Accra Region.
Each beneficiary received items worth GH¢300, which included mannequins, hair rollers and pins, towels, scissors and comb sets.
Mr. Nurudeen Mohammed, National Coordinator of ZEED, said the items were to facilitate and enhance the training activities of the beneficiaries in the various centres, in order to empower them to become self-dependant.
Mr. Mohammed noted that the beneficiaries were currently under-going hairdressing training, where “they are being taught hair braiding, perming and weaving.”
According to him, “The beneficiaries have been attached to hairdressing training centres in their local Zongo communities, to enable them to be tutored in the vocation for a period of six months.”
Mr. Mohammed noted that upon completion, the beneficiaries would also receive other items that will enable them set up their own businesses “to create wealth, provide financial freedom, and help to reduce poverty in the various Zongo communities.”
Mr. Mohammed charged the beneficiaries to take good care of the equipment to enable them complete their training successfully.
He also used the opportunity to urge the youth in the various Zongo communities to embrace the project to ensure its sustainability.
Throwing more light on how the module works, the National Coordinator said ZEED was created as an intervention by the government, under the Zongo Employment and Entrepreneurial Development (ZEED) module, to financially empower the youth in the Zongo communities to become self-employed and contribute to the development agenda of the country.
He said, so far, over 2,000 beneficiaries had been enrolled under the module, and were pursuing various training programmes in vocations such hairdressing, fashion designing, catering, and glass cutting among others.