NYEP EMPLOYS 374 IN JOMORO DISTRICT (PAGE 23)

Story: Kwame Asiedu Marfo, Anlomatupe

THE National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) has employed 374 people under the different modules in the Jomoro District of the Western Region.
The District Co-ordinator of the NYEP, Mr Mathew A. Ndah, announced this when he accompanied the Jomoro District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Martin Yamekeh Ackah, to interact with the people of Anlomatuope and also know their problems.
He said 240 people had been employed under the Community Teaching Assistants module and said they had been helping to enhance teaching and learning in various schools in the district.
Mr Ndah said schools which did not have teachers were now benefiting greatly from the services of the teaching assistants.
Under the Health Extension Workers (HEW) module, Mr Ndah said 60 young people from the district had been registered and trained and were now helping to address the problem of shortage of staff in health facilities in the district.
He said the health extension workers were providing adequate extension services at the basic level of health care for the communities and health centres, as well as door-to-door primary healthcare services, adding that they offered home-based care to the communities.
Touching on the Community Protection Unit, Mr Ndah said 23 able-bodied and energetic young people had been employed and trained to assist the regular police in performing their duties, such as directing traffic, patrolling the neighbourhood, fighting criminal activities, liaising with opinion leaders, fostering community relations and forging partnerships in their respective communities.
On sanitation and waste management, the co-ordinator said 41 people had been engaged by Zoomlion Ghana Limited, the waste management experts, while 10 had been employed as sanitary guards to help keep the communities in the district clean.
Mr Ndah assured the people that more unemployed youth would be employed when the district started implementing the remaining modules.
He, therefore, advised the youth who had not applied for employment under the programme to visit the youth employment office at the Jomoro District Assembly for forms and apply without delay.
Mr Ackah explained the importance of the National Health Insurance Scheme, which had replaced the cash-and-carry system, the Capitation Grant, the School Feeding Programme, the NYEP and the President’s Special Initiatives, especially that on distance learning, to the people.
He urged parents to take advantage of the Capitation Grant and the School Feeding Programme to enrol their children, especially the girls, in school.
The DCE said it was the dream of the government that every child of school age was in school and that was why it had introduced those programmes to provide children with a solid foundation for their future development.
Mr Ackah explained that the NYEP was to offer employment opportunities to the unemployed and underemployed who registered with the programme.
The Odikro of Anlomatuope, Nana Nreda Morkeh, thanked the Jomoro District Assembly for providing the town with some development projects, such as pipe-borne water, roofing sheets for its community shed, the gravelling of the road from the junction to the town, the construction of a modern school block, as well as the provision of electric poles for the its electrification project.