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Outreach Africa to offer free
vocational training
Whindo (W/R) Sept. 17, GNA- Outreach Africa, a
non-governmental organisation (NGO), is constructing 75,000
Ghana cedis vocational institute at Whindo near Takoradi.
The institute is expected to offer free tuition, free lunch
and transportation for students to their residences.
Mr. Daniel O. Asiamah, the Director of the Institute, in an
interview with GNA at Takoradi on Monday, said already 150
orphans and needy children have applied for admission into
the Institute, which would be commissioned next month.
He said the NGO was committed to assisting orphans and needy
children within the Shama Ahanta East Metropolis to acquire
vocational skills to make them self-employed to enable them
earn a living.
Mr. Asiamah said graduates of the Institute would be
expected to establish their own businesses so that they
could become less dependent on their families.
He said the Institute would have a classroom block, offices,
library, and an Information Communication and Technology (ICT)
centre.
Mr. Asiamah said catering, dressmaking, draughtsmanship,
hairdressing and English Language, which would be compulsory
for all students of the Institute.
GNA
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