More youth registered for employment programme

Breman Baako (C/R), Dec. 3, GNA - The Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District Assembly has registered and trained 227 young men and as teachers' assistants and posted them to fill vacancies in schools in the district under the Youth Employment Programme.

The programme has also employed 26 youth as sanitation workers to sweep or clean all the major towns in the district and also enforce sanitation byelaws in the district. The District Chief Executive, Mr. Emmanuel Adjei Doomson, said this in an address read for him at the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District Farmers' Day at Breman Baako on Friday.

He said the programme was also in the process of recruiting and training 60 unemployed youth as auxiliary Health Care Workers Assistants to work in health institutions in the district. Mr. Doomson said the programme would soon employ 10 people as Sanitation Assistants to supplement the workforce of the Environmental Health Officers.

He said about 953 youth have been registered to go into farming to help in food production and other economic activities. He appealed to the youth in the district to embrace the Youth in Agro-business Programme.

Mr Doomson appealed to chiefs and individual landowners to release more land to the youth in their communities to ensure the success of the programme in the district.