AngloGold Ashanti trains more women

Beneficiaries of AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine Community investment drive aimed at offering employable shills to women in the communities have been advised against infighting and petty squabbles.

Nana Ampofo-Bekoe, Manager Sustainability of the Company, said such behaviour would render the heavy investment the company was making in the training, in spite of production challenges, to go waste.

This was when 25 women drawn from Nyieso, New Dokyiwa, Ayinam, Diawuoso and Oduamsi communities were passing out after 10-day training in pastries -making in which the company spent over GH¢20,000 in the training and starter- pack materials.

Last month AngloGold Ashanti spent over GH¢18,000 to train the first batch of women in soap-making. The women were drawn from KoKoteasua, Abompekrom, Dokyiwa, Binrisere and Nyieso communities and this training programme would last until December where 125 women would have benefitted.

Nana Ampofo-Bekoe reinterated the company’s core value of making the communities better off than it met.

He said the idea of making the women self-supporting by offering them employable skills was to promote peace in their families following the retrenchment exercise going on in the company.

Madam Margaret Addams, a Resource Person, appealed to the women to adopt selling strategies that would make more people to patronize their products to maximize profit.

Nana Kyei Baffour Akasabebuo, Regent of Ayinam, commended AngloGold Ashanti for the initiative and appealed to the beneficiary women to avoid laziness that would make the training non-beneficial.