3,000 YOUTH TO BENEFIT FROM ICT TRAINING (PAGE 38, DEC 24)

MORE than 3,000 youth in the Greater Accra Region are to be trained in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) next year.
The training programme, which will be executed with the help of the South Korean government, is one of the 11 new modules that have been introduced into the NYEP.
Among the new modules are youth in agriculture, grasscutter rearing, community protection unit and youth in mobile and ICT
The Greater Accra Regional Co-ordinator of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), Mr Solomon Nii Afutu Quartey, made this known when he toured selected district and municipal assemblies in the Greater Accra Region to acquaint himself with the activities of the NYEP.
Some of the areas he toured were the Ga East, Ga West, Adenta and Ga South assemblies.
Mr Quartey told the Daily Graphic that the NYEP was a success, but there was more to be done to create more opportunities for the youth in the region.
At the Pantang Hospital, the visit brought to bear a plight of a young woman who came from Kasoa to work at Pantang every day, but had not been paid for the past three months.
Mr Elvis Akuamoah, Co-ordinator of the Pantang Hospital responsible for in-service training, said there was no frequent interaction between the district co-ordinator of the NYEP and the hospital in the past, and expressed hope that the situation would change with the assumption of office of the new regional co-ordinator of the programme.