Eight Kayaye Pass out

Gambaga (N/R), July 15, GNA - Eight female porters from the Mamprusi East District in the Northern Region, who were picked in the streets of Accra and given various vocational skills have been introduced to the District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr David Konlaa.

The girls, who migrated from villages in the district to engage in porter work popularly called "Kayayo" in Accra, were admitted into the Prampram Vocational Institute where they acquired skills in catering, hairdressing and dressmaking.

Mr Konlaa, in an address advised them to use the newly acquired skill to benefit the district, and assured them of the assembly's readiness to support them through the poverty alleviation fund. He said the assembly had spent an unspecified amount towards their training, adding that the money that the assembly spent on them should not be wasted.

The Headmaster of the Nalerigu Secondary School, Mr Nabia Sulemana, commented on the reasons why some of the girls are forced to migrate to the urban centres in search of job and said there is too much pressure on the girls by their parents to travel in search of greener pastures. Hajia Alima therefore, appealed to the DCE to occasionally organise durbars to sensitise parents on behalf of her colleagues to impact the skills acquired to other girls in the community.

She added that they would form association in order to benefit from the poverty alleviation fund and other existing support.

The assembly has already provided hair driers, gas cylinders and stoves, and sewing machines to the graduates.