Opinion and religious leaders at Effia in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis have pledged to raise GH¢100,000 to support the Opportunity Industrialisation Centre Ghana (OIC-Ghana) in the next three years.
The fund will be used to improve infrastructure at the school and to support the underprivileged to acquire self-employable skills to make them less dependent on society.
According to the Programme Manager of the centre, Mr Moses Amoamah-Antwi, the focus of the training centre was to ensure that idle hands were trained to make them self-reliant to contribute to national development.
“Since we started, many youth had applied for various skills for which we cannot enrol them because of lack of funds,” he said.
“Interestingly, the people who report at the centre to be trained were unable to meet the bills,” he said, adding that the future of these underprivileged would be more secured if they are given the training to make them independent instead of turning them away for the mere fact that they could not afford the bills.
“I have to commend the chiefs, religious bodies and all those who came up with the idea of raising funds to support the centre to help those who cannot afford to support themselves for the programme duration,” he said.
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