Tema, (Greater Accra) 9 Oct.,

Aluworks, an aluminium products manufacturing company in Tema, is to provide about 5,000 dollars to the Tema Secondary School (TEMASCO) for the purchase of books to support a junior achievement programme. Mr J.P.A. Nyarko, Managing Director who disclosed this at the inauguration of the programme at Tema yesterday, said the company will in addition provide personnel in marketing, finance, technical and administration to promote the programme in the school. The junior achievement programme exposes students to technological developments and entrepreneurial skills. Mr Nyarko said since the partnership programme is consistent with the company's policy to contribute to manpower development, ''we offer students the opportunity for vacation training attachment in several specified trades in the factory every year, and make contributions to selected educational institutions''. People in industry, he said, cannot turn a blind eye to the teeming mass of unemployed youth in the country, adding that the programme can help prepare the youth towards starting their own businesses. Mr Paul Yeboah, director of the programme, identified the lack of economic literacy as one of the major problems facing the country and said it will be difficult to have economic development, unless the population is economically literate. Economic literacy comes about when people appreciate the need to keep proper records of their businesses and understand the need to honour their tax obligations, he said.