A Member of Council of State, the Rev Dr Jacob Ayeebo, at the weekend reiterated the need to invest in food deficit areas to ensure food security.
He said equipping the youth with the requisite skills would enable them to work and develop their communities instead of migrating to look for non existent jobs in the cities.
Rev Ayeebo said this when the Anglican Diocesan Development and Relief Organization (ADDRO), joined by its partners from the Episcopal
Relief and Development (ERD), graduated 12 young women who had completed vocational programmes at Sherigu, in the Bolgatanga Municipality.
Madam Cannon Bonnie Anderson of ERD, leader of a six-member team from New York and main sponsors of the Food and Livelihood Programme (FLSP), said the recognition women enjoyed all over the world was
because they lived in a more collective and collaborative relationship with their communities.
Madam Anderson said women should let that relationship inspire them on to continue to live in harmony in all spheres of life.
The graduates, who successfully completed their two-year National Vocational Training Examination in dressmaking, batik, tie and dye,
soap making courses, received certificates and working tools sponsored by ADDRO.
Ms Juliet Abajong, a trainer from ADDRO, said 67 groups totalling 1,005 women have benefited from small and micro credit scheme under the FLSP to carry out income generating activities whiles seven
farming groups had received improved seed varieties.