Trainees of the Sunyani Youth Development Association (SYDA) have undergone a three-day Information and Communication Technology (ICT) training as part of their three-year intensive skills training.
The ICT training workshop is to empower the participants to identify problems in their respective communities and possible ideas to solve them and contribute to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
It was organised and facilitated by the Business Innovation Development and Entrepreneurship Initiative (BIDET), a youth-based nonprofit making organisation in Sunyani.
It was through UNLEASH, a Global Invocation Lab into addressing community challenges towards the attainment of the SDGs.
The workshop is an ideation training to help participants generate possible ideas and find out societal problems, the actual causes of the problems and how it can be addressed.
BIG BOOST
Mr. Akoto Snr announced that the SYDA had received training equipment worth GH¢140,000.00 from the GIIF as support to improve employable skills training opportunities for the youth.
He said SYDA has facilitated 58 trainees to graduate already, making the total of 65 beneficiaries of the association who have established themselves in business.
Mr. Akoto Snr said there are 10 Master Crafts Persons with 42 trainees currently undergoing three-year training in fashion, kente weaving, smock weaving, auto mechanic, hairdressing, cosmetology, and aluminium fabrication and bead crafts.
The association also has other training modules such as wood technology, bicycle repairs, solar energy installation technology, catering and decor under its entrepreneurial hub training.
The Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (GIIF) funded the acquisition additional tools, machines and materials for the expansion of the skills training equipments
In all, the association has 95 sewing machines including 25 industrial sewing machines with the remaining being hand and other electric sewing machines at the fashion department.
The other departments, auto mechanic, textile hand weaving (Kente), bead crafts, aluminum fabrication and hairdressing also benefited from the GIIF support.
The association is also into solar energy technology, wood technology (carpentry), visual arts and bicycle repairs as other areas of the skills training project.
