Dr. Sekou Nkrumah, the Acting National Coordinator of National Youth Council (NYC), has appealed to the government to include the National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) in the GETFund budget.
He described as disheartening the situation where youth leadership training centres in the country are left out of the GETFund budget.
"This is unhelpful to the drive to equip the youth with employable skills to make them economically self-supporting."
Dr Nkrumah said this in an address read for him at the close of a two-week instructional training techniques course in Kumasi for 47 National Youth
Council (NYC) instructors drawn from the 10 regions.
It was meant to help train more instructors to become professionally competent in their fields of specialization.
The participants were taken through carpentry, general electrical, dressmaking, block-laying, plumbing works, cookery and general agriculture.
Dr Nkrumah said technical training was one of the tools that could help to bring down the high unemployment among the youth.
The Director of NVTI, Mr Stephen Bismark Amponsah, said it was important instructors upgrade themselves through industrial attachment so that they could impart skills acquired to their students.
He appealed to the government, organizations and philanthropists for more support to enable the institute to provide quality vocational and technical training to the people.
Mr. Amponsah complained about sub-standard workshops, insufficient tools and equipment and called on the government to help address the situation.
He said he was also not happy with the incorrect placement or ranking of instructors and the poor remuneration.