ITES receives grant to train 150 poor youth

Accra, Dec. 30, GNA - The ITES Secretariat of the Ministry of Communication has received an $882,000 grant for the implementation of the ITES/BPO Work Readiness Programme.

It is to train 150 poor and vulnerable youth on work readiness and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) skills and then employ those youth in BPOs to digitise government records.

A statement issued in Accra on Friday said the grant was being made through the Rockefeller Foundation's Poverty Reduction through Information and Digital Employment (PRIDE) Initiative.

PRIDE is working to create employment for poor and vulnerable people in Africa by establishing meaningful jobs in the information technology industry through the fostering and scaling up of a new ar'