BOK African Concern, a Berekum-dependent Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has officially handed around two neighborhood projects to the chiefs of Senase in the Berekum Municipality and Masu in the Dormaa Central Municipality of the Bono Region.
This kinds component of efforts to make youth work for returnees and prospective migrants in the two places.
The Nana Owusu Fakyiwaa Soap Factory at Senase in the Berekum Municipality and Masu Local community Block Manufacturing unit assignments at Masu in the Dormaa Central Municipality has storerooms, mechanised boreholes, working place for handbook and electric run block making machine all valued at ¢600,000.00.
The amount of money also includes some start out-up kits, which ended up introduced to a group of farmers, hairdressers, and physically challenged persons at the ceremony.
The Soap Making Manufacturing unit has a performing place, principal workplace, a storeroom and a washroom, a mechanised borehole and a standing pipe.
Talking at a ceremony to officially commission the Nana Owusu Fakyiwaa Soap Manufacturing unit Venture, Mr. Kofi Adjei, Berekum Municipal Main Executive, counseled the chiefs for earning two half-acres of land readily available for the challenge in Senase and Masu.
Mr. Adjei urged users of the community to ensure correct upkeep of the facility to ensure the community derived highest advantage.
He advised people to heed latest contact by the President to dress in nose masks and adhere strictly to social distancing and other cleanliness protocols to stem the spread of Covid-19.
Mr Benson Savio Boateng, the Govt Director, BOK African Problem, explained Ghana rated second following Nigeria among the checklist of countries with the maximum numbers of irregular migrants in Africa and Migrants in the Brong and Ahafo Areas were far more than fifty percent the populace of the relaxation of the areas put collectively.
“As a end result the utilizing partners, BOK, Global Organisation for Migration (IOM) and GIS experienced deeply assumed this by way of how to change the narrative. They consulted common rulers to check out avenues on how to deal with the problem of unemployment among the irregular migrants,” he stated.
Mr. Boateng stated the Senase group was selected for the project due to the popularity it experienced obtained in soap manufacturing, most residents had been functioning in that market and been given vocational and technological teaching through the guidance of the Municipal Assembly and the Company Advisory Centre(BAC).
Mr Nuhu Salifu Dimah, Head of Business Advisory Centre, Berekum, mentioned that the facility would increase their socio-financial livelihoods as a result of know-how acquisition, empowerment, and competencies enhancement.
He recommended proprietors of the facility, and supervisors to assure they registered the business with state regulatory businesses like the Registrar General’s Division and the Food and Drugs Board (Fda) for certificates to commence functions.
He reported his outfit designed preparations to get started an on line registration system for people smaller scale enterprises and consequently inspired operators and future operators to acquire advantage to register.
“Our USSB Code, on the internet system and simply call centres are all all set,” he additional.
Nana Gyamfi, the Nifahene of Berekum Senase, thanked the employing associates for creating the facility and requested for more assistance for the group.
The start off-up kits provided to the many groups bundled two mattocks, two rakes, five cutlasses, two packet fungicides, five hand trowels, three back garden traces, two (400 metres drinking water hoses) and just one tricycle.
Other people are two industrial soap mixer, a few industrial boiling pots, an electric chopping device, manual cutting machines, two steel tables, 10 baggage of caustic soda, two baggage of salt, two knapsack sprayers, 3 luggage of poly feed, six bottles liquid natural and organic fertilizers, a few watering cans, and two measuring tapes.
