Okoe Vanderpuye launches 'Tsentse Skills Development Project'

The Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South Honorable Alfred Okoe Vanderpuye on Sunday launched a new project dubbed 'Tsentse Skills Development Project' for residents within his constituency.

The Tsentse Skills Development Project is targeted at giving skills to unemployed youth as well as assist in discovering other talents.

The project which is the first of its kind in the community will see fifty young adults including men and women participate in the six months skills training program at the Robert Aryee Center of Excellence Institute which will give birth to hairdressers, fashion designers, caterers, decorators and many more.

Speaking at the inauguration the erstwhile Chief of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly now the MP for Ablekuma South Dr.Alfred Okoe Vanderpuye said the project is not government sponsored, rather part of his duties as an MP.

The National Democratic Congress Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South as a form of motivation gave each of the fifty students GHC100 cedis capital and also retreated that after the six months training the students will be given a startup capital loan from Omini Bank and ASA savings and loans to buy equipment’s and open their own shops their business in Ablekuma South.

Vanderpuye gave each of the fifty students GHC100 cedis as a form of motivation

"After six months we will examine the profit they've been to add to the GHC100 cedis. We will also add ASA to assist them establish five new companies and as guarantors, we will further help them find spaces to establish their own shops. We will also initiate a new group of students into the project following the graduation of their seniors."



The Tsentse Skills Development Project

He added that "the second badge of students will also have their internships at the shops of their seniors for practical training whilst still in school"

"The day for Ablekuma South has come. The politicians, the chiefs and our former MPs have come together that is vision of creating job opportunities for our children. Our youth will become a reality for Ablekuma South. We have started with 50 of our youth to give them job opportunities and support them build their own businesses," Vanderpuye added.



The fifty Students who will enroll in the maiden training

Over the years it's been evident that Ablekuma South has been a constituency filled with unemployed youth who were school dropouts but speaking in an interview after the launch the MP who has only been in office for six months said his vision is to change the story of Ablekuma South.

"We want to create the opportunity for the employable youth, whether they drop out of school or completed we want to change that for them. We want to change the situation whereby they ask for money and give them skills for them to be able and fish and change the environment".

Dr. Alfred Okoe Vanderpuye is also the brain behind the ‘Free Remedial Studies’ being organized in the same community.



Dr. Alfred Okoe Vanderpuye