Breman Asikuma (C/R), Jan. 3, GNA - The Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District Assembly, in collaboration with the District Youth Employment Task Force, have registered about 953 youth and grouped them into 61 co-operative societies. The District Chief Executive, Mr. Emmanuel Adjei Doomson, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview at Breman Asikuma that the assembly has registered and trained 227 young men and women as teachers' assistants and filling vacancies in schools in the district. He said the Youth Employment Task force and the assembly have developed a module for agriculture.
Breman Asikuma (C/R), Jan. 3, GNA - The Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District Assembly, in collaboration with the District Youth Employment Task Force, have registered about 953 youth and grouped them into 61 co-operative societies. The District Chief Executive, Mr. Emmanuel Adjei Doomson, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview at Breman Asikuma that the assembly has registered and trained 227 young men and women as teachers' assistants and filling vacancies in schools in the district. He said the Youth Employment Task force and the assembly have developed a module for agriculture.
Mr. Doomson said 15 groups are already working in the district Assembly chilli farms at Asikuma, Brakwa and Odoben, 10 groups have also been engaged to produce maize on a 100-acre land at Bosomase and Benin. Some 500 of the registered youth farmers would be out growers who would be supported with credit facilities in the form of farm inputs and cash. He said the programme has employed 26 youth as sanitation workers to sweep or clean all the major towns in the district and also enforce sanitation byelaws in the district.
