ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-ONE young women at the weekend graduated after completing a five-month entrepreneurship skills training course at the Vocational Training for Females (VTF) programme in Accra.
The women studied subjects such as customer care, communication, time management, creativity, production planning, quality control, costing and pricing, record keeping and market survey.
Sixty-four young women who had completed vocational training were each given a set of basic tool and equipment valued at Gh¢ 35,000 to start their own business.
Addressing the ceremony, the acting Director of VTF, Ms Linda Agyei said the training course sought to enhance employment, social and political status of women for sustainable livelihood.
She stressed the importance to focus on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to ensure national development.
The acting director said the training gave women the opportunity to access basic equipment to begin and maintain their businesses on completion of their courses.
Ms Agyei advised the graduates to search and learn new skills even as they passed out.
In a speech read on his behalf, the Minister of Employment and Social Welfare, Mr Stephen Amoanor Kwao said the ministry would modernise the traditional apprenticeship system which was a major source of skill supply to the Ghanaian industry.
He said the NVTI would be resourced with assistance from the Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET) to implement the National Apprenticeship Programme as the Government's commitment to employment creation.
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