Bekwai Constituency: Over 2,000 beneficiaries Amansie Youth Project phase 2 graduate
The graduation ceremony which took place on Wednesday, 1 May 2024, was held at the Amansie Nsroma Social and Events Centre in Bekwai
Over 2,000 indigenes of the Bekwai constituency in the Ashanti Region who enrolled in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the Bekwai constituency, Ralph Poku-Adusei’s entrepreneurial and income-generating skills training programme have graduated.
The initiative which commenced on Monday, 8 April, and ended on Friday, 26 April 2024, attracted over two thousand indigenes of Bekwai on the first day from communities such as Bogyawe, Poano, Kokofu, Senfi, Dotom, and Anwiankwanta. The graduation ceremony which took place on Wednesday, 1 May 2024, was held at the Amansie Nsroma Social and Events Centre in Bekwai.
The income-generating skills training was aimed at providing all those who take advantage of it with self-employable skills. Beneficiaries can also use the skills they gather to make basic items they may need for household consumption.
The initiative dubbed; “Amansie Youth Project Phase 2,” was under the auspices of the Ralph Poku-Adusei Foundation, and in collaboration with Gateway Skills Training Enterprise. The training session has three models. Model one was on detergents and participants would be trained to do Liquid soap, shower gel, washing powder, aftershave, and Parazone.
Model two would focus on pastries and drinks. Subscribers to this model will be trained in meat pie baking, cake making, shortbread making, Prekese, and Sobolo mixing. The last model which will focus on farming, will train people in snail farming, mushroom farming, and fish farming (catfish/tilapia). All participants are expected to graduate on Wednesday, 1 May 2024.
Ralph Poku-Adusei through his foundation, Ralph Poku-Adusei Foundation (RPAF), organised the first phase of the entrepreneurial and income-generating skills training programme for the indigenes of Amansie in Bekwai in the Ashanti Region from Monday 24 to 26 April 2023.
Graduation Message
At the graduation ceremony, Ralph Poku-Adusei charged all the beneficiaries to make full use of the skills they had acquired to improve their income levels as well as their standards of living.
He added that as their incoming member of Parliament, he will do everything within his mandate and his means to assist his constituents to develop themselves and to develop the constituency.
Prioritise training
In his remarks at the opening ceremony before the start of the training sessions, Ralph Poku-Adusei – the founder of the RPAF, and managing partner at Trent Legal Amansie Chambers, charged the people of Bekwai to take full advantage of the opportunity to learn new skills which will help them improve their earning power and income level.
“The youth of Bekwai are the main target of the initiative. Today, we turn our attention to the youth, who are the future. Empowerment for the youth is quintessentially, the heart of every economic development effort that is being made by countries globally.
“To borrow the words of Lao Tsu: ‘If you give a man a fish you feed him for a day, if you teach him to fish you feed him for a lifetime.’ As such, the skills you will learn here today and in the preceding days should be seen as an opportunity to grow economically and socially,” Poku-Adusei said.
“I will entreat you all to make this learning experience a priority and to take full advantage of this opportunity to learn a skill that will benefit you, your family, and the community at large. Now is the time for the youth of the Bekwai community to come together and change the status quo.
“It is time we add value to ourselves and take our rightful place in the economic narrative of Ghana as a whole. These skills we learn here will be a tool that can never be taken away, and I am a firm believer that the only assets one can possess are knowledge,” Poku-Adusei added.
The RPA Foundation
The Ralph Poku-Adusei Foundation was born out of the lawyer’s deep sense of belonging to the Bekwai community and his unwavering dedication to giving back to the community that helped shape him in his formative years.
This deep-seated desire was birthed unofficially in 2015 and officially in 2018 and has since given back to the Bekwai community in multiple ways. Through the help of God and the immense support of the people in Bekwai, the foundation has embarked on several social intervention programs within the community.
Among the interventions the foundation has made are donations of food, cash donations, renovation of an office complex for the Ghana Ambulance Service, and support for the Zongo and Muslim communities in Bekwai.
Reporting by Wilberforce Asare in Accra
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