1,130 youths registered under NYEP in Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District

Ajumako(C/R), Nov. 05, GNA - A total of 1,130 youths have been registered under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) in Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District.

Mr Kenneth Obempong, Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District Chief Executive who announced this when addressing the third ordinary meeting of the assembly at Ajumako, said about 80 per cent of them were employed in agriculture, health, education and community security.

He said 250 of them employed as Teaching Assistants had been trained and posted to schools in the district, while 60 of 82 youths employed as Health Extension Assistants had undergone training and would be posted to health institutions in the district.

Mr Obempong said 718 youths employed in agriculture would be provided with inputs to begin work soon, management of Zoomlion had employed 36 of them and 10 of them employed as Sanitation Guards. He said the management of Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District Mutual Health Insurance Scheme had registered 47,226 clients from the informal sector by the end of September this year.

Mr Obempong said the National Secretariat of the Scheme had provided a vehicle for activities of the scheme and the assembly would continue to support the scheme with a vehicle for public sensitisation programme.