The Local Entrepreneurs and Skills Development Programme (LESDEP) has trained 200 youth in Gomoa West in entrepreneurial skills to help them to start their own businesses.

LESDEP has also provided the trainees with tools and equipment to enable them to set up their own businesses

Mr. Cosmos Amissah, Gomoa West District Coordinator of LESDEP announced this at the passing-out of 50 trainees at Apam. They were also presented with work tools and equipment including sewing machines and hair dryers.

Addressing the trainees, Mr. Amissah admonished the youth to take advantage of LESDEP and other skills training programmes instituted by the government to help them to acquire skills.

He said white-collar jobs were scarce to come by these days, hence thousands of job seekers were found roaming the streets of the cities and the commercial towns.

The LESDEP Coordinator advised the youth to put their training to good use not only to benefit themselves but also their brothers and sisters and even their parents. He cautioned them against selling their tools and equipment only to go back to join the white-collar job seekers.

“We are going to monitor your performances on the field,” Mr. Amissah stated. “The appreciation that you can show to the government for what it has done for you is to use the tools judiciously to enable you to be self-reliant and will not depend on the government to provide you with jobs,” he said.

Some of the recipients the GNA talked to expressed profound gratitude to the government for making the programme possible and gave the assurance that they would use the equipment judiciously not only to benefit themselves but others as well.