The Vice President and Flagbearer of the NPP, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has commissioned an ultra-modern hostel facility, in addition to a expertise coaching and empowerment centre in Accra for head porters, popularly often known as Kayayei.
The multi-purpose amenities, positioned in Madina and Ashaiman, within the Larger Accra Area, fulfills a promise made by Dr. Bawumia, on behalf of presidency in 2019, to move porters, throughout a go to to their base in Agbogbloshie, to get them respectable place of accomodation, in a bid to assist transfer them out of the streets.
With an added expertise and coaching programme to the hostel amenities, by way of a collaborative efforts between many authorities businesses, the personal sector and NGOs, the Vice President and the federal government have gone past the preliminary promise to a step additional of empowering the deprived ladies.
Talking on the programme, Dr. Bawumia expressed delight on the commissioning of each the power and the launch of the tfaining programme, which he mentioned, will deal with the plight of the marginalised ladies, and likewise supply them transitional job pathways, to boost their socio-economic standing.
“I’m honoured to be a part of this initiative devoted to empowering head porters, providing transitional job pathways, and enhancing their socio-economic standing. It’s a trigger near my coronary heart because it addresses the plight of a marginalized phase of our society,’ Dr Bawumia mentioned.
“This noble endeavour resonates profoundly with the core values of our mission, because it squarely addresses the urgent wants of a marginalized phase of our society that has lengthy been relegated to the shadows of neglect and indifference.’
The NPP Flagbearer famous that statistics confirmed that there are over 100,000 head porters in Ghana, who, he added, endure unimaginable hardships similar to lack of shelter, insufficient medical care, and harassment in city centres every day, which required pressing consideration.
“From the cruel realities of homelessness to the obvious deficiencies in entry to sufficient well being care and the pervasive scourge of city harassment, their plight stands as a stark testomony to the ethical crucial of pressing intervention to uplift and remodel their lives.”
KAYAYEI EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMME
Dr. Bawumia famous that authorities’s concern isn’t solely to supply respectable lodging to the pinnacle porters, however to additionally create a pathway which is able to empower them to be self-employed, in order that they might not have to return to the streets, therefore the institution of the Kayayei Empowerment Programme.
The programme, Dr. Bawumia famous, has been meticulously conceived and crafted to supply holistic and sustainable financial empowerment to “these resilient younger ladies.”
“This multi-faceted program is characterised by a rigorous and exhaustive recruitment course of, culminating within the collection of preliminary coaching cohorts comprising 5,000 head porters. Over the span of three weeks, members might be immersed in a transformative studying expertise, encompassing important modules similar to baking and beading, supplemented by invaluable mushy expertise coaching in private well being care, monetary administration, and entrepreneurial acumen.”
“Crucially, the availability of post-training assist and implementation of a monitor and hint mannequin, serves because the linchpin of this system’s efficacy, with members receiving starter packs tailor-made to facilitate their seamless integration into new financial alternatives and additional be certain that beneficiaries don’t return to being head porters,” Dr. Bawumia added.
Along with the programmes on supply, Dr. Bawumia additionally revealed that discussions with Aayalolo and Metro Mass, are ongoing, for the 2 businesses to additionally prepare a number of the Kayayei in driving.
HOSTEL FACILITIES
Total, authorities intends to construct two extra amenities along with the 2 newly-commissioned amenities in Madina and Ashaiman.
Every facility is provided with 300 beds, coaching rooms, panties, kitchen, a clinic, washrooms, hearth extinguishers, CCTV and safety and meals shed.
Dr. Bawumia expressed gratitude to a variety of authorities businesses, which cast strategic and collaborative partnerships with some personal enterprises and a few civil society organizations, to make the challenge attainable.
The federal government businesses which collaborated are: Ghana Enterprises Company (GEA), Nationwide Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP), Youth Employment Company (YEA), Council for Technical and Vocational Training and Coaching (CTVET), Ghana Training Belief Fund (GETFund), Technical and Vocational Training and Coaching (TVET), District Assemblies Widespread Fund (DACF),
Ghana Gasoline and BOST, in addition to nicely as the Father Campbell Basis and BEST.
Management of the Kayayei ladies, who turned up of their numbers, symbolically with their head pans, expressed profound gratitude to Dr. Bawumia and the federal government, for the intervention.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of The Presidency, Republic of Ghana.