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Ghana: Adenta Municipal Assembly Embarks On Job Creation for Youth

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Public Agenda (Accra)

4 July 2008
Posted to the web 4 July 2008

Ayuure Kapini Atafori

The Adenta Municipal Assembly has embarked on a job creation project, dubbed Wealth Creation Programme, to offer gainful employment to the youth in the municipality.

The wealth Creation Programme involves the establishment of grass cutter and rabbit rearing ventures in collaboration with the Animal Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).

Another component of the programme is the production of mushroom in commercial quantity which will be assisted by the Food research Institute of CSIR. In addition,fish ponds will be set up to engage the youth in employment.

The programme, which will commence on July 15, will involve about 120 people from the 12 rural communities in the municipal assembly. Another programme is in the pipeline to cater for the vulnerable persons and retirees in thearea.

The Municipal Chief Executive of the Adenta, Mr Nii Noi Adumua,made this known toPublic Agenda after a 10-kilometre sanitation and health awareness walk in the municipality.

Mr Adumua said the assembly has asked every household to plant and nurture at least one economic tree so as to supplement the diet of the people andgenerate some income when it grows to maturity and bears fruits.

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He asked the people to build houses in a manner that can harvest rain water. He assured the people that the water problem in the area will become a thing of the past.

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