Mr Isaac Owusu-Asante, Brong-Ahafo Regional Coordinator of Local Enterprises and Skills Development Programme (LESDEP), has advised the youth to take advantage of the programme to learn and acquire some useful skills to enhance their living standards.

He appealed to the youth not to play politics with the Programme since it had been arranged for the welfare of all unemployed youth irrespective of party affiliation.

Mr Owusu-Asante said this when addressing 62 master craftsmen and women which also comprised fashion designers and beauticians, at the end of a four-day skill enhancement training workshop at Nkoranza.

He said the LESDEP programme was a non-partisan one launched by the Government to help address the unemployment problem faced by the youth.

Mr Owusu-Asante called on the master craftsmen to handle the apprentices well and offer them the necessary training to enable them to become self-sufficient.

Mr Thomas Owusu-Ansah, the Nkoranza South District LESDEP Coordinator, commended the Government for the Programme, saying at the end of the day, many youth would cease to be regarded as liabilities in the communities.

He assured the participants that the Government would provide them with the necessary working tools to enhance their work and also pave way for more of such trainings extended to a number of unemployed youth in various vocations.

Mr Owusu-Asante said the officials of the LESDEP Programme would be visiting the work places of the participants to monitor their activities as well as the performances of their apprentices to ensure that Government’s investment in the programme was not wasted.

Madam Faustina Akua Benewaa, a beautician and a participant of the program, described the workshop as a “school of great thought” adding that the four-day training had enabled the participants acquire additional skills to improve upon themselves.

She appealed to the leadership of the Programme to organise regular workshops to add new ideas to their styles and performances.