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The Resilient City for Adolescent (RCA) Project has offered employable skills training to 90 vulnerable young people in the Sunyani West and Sunyani Municipalities to fetch them decent jobs. In all, 33 of the beneficiaries between 15 and 25 years were trained in soap making, 17 in bakery, 15 in fashion design, 15 in body makeup, five in hairdressing, and an additional five in bead making.
The Sunyani-based Global Media Foundation (GloMeF), an anti-corruption and media advocacy Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) and its local partners are implementing the RCA project in the two municipalities. Other partners, the Indigenous Women Empowerment Network (IWEN) and Citizens Watch Ghana (CWG), all NGOs are supporting the project implementation with funding from the Fondation Botnar through Ecorys, United Kingdom under its Healthy Cities for Adolescents (HCA2).
The implementation of the three-year project, among other objectives, sought to improve the holistic wellbeing of vulnerable adolescent people and also provide them with a voice in the decision-making process. Speaking at the ‘2025 Show and Tell’ event of the project in Sunyani, Mr Raphael Godlove Ahenu, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of GloMeF said some of the project would provide start-up tools and other support to some of the deserving beneficiaries of the training to set up their own businesses.
Besides, he added that the project would also establish an entrepreneurship hub to provide “work and pay” opportunities for the beneficiaries who could not immediately set their businesses.
Mr Ahenu said the hub would also create opportunities for many of the vulnerable young people interested in employable skills training to learn the various crafts under the project implementation. He emphasised that employable skills training did not only provide ready jobs, but also lucrative and urged families to encourage their children and wards to leverage on the opportunity and go through the training.
Mr Alhassan Nabila, the Chief Accountant at the Bono Regional Office of the National Youth Authority commended the GloMeF and its partners, saying their training aligned with a broader effort being made by the government to tackle the growing youth employment situation in the country.
Mr George Yaw Ankamah, the Bono Regional Director of the Department of Children urged the beneficiaries to leverage opportunities of the new media to sell their products, asking them to prioritize branding and to enter the international market through social media.
