JOMORO ASSEMBLY TO ASSIST ARTISANS (PAGE 40)

THE Jomoro District Assembly in the Western Region is to assist artisans and bakers in the district through the Business Advisory Centre (BAC) of the Rural Enterprise Project to benefit from the Rural Enterprises Development Fund to expand their businesses.
The Head of the Business Advisory Centre in the Jomoro District, Mr Daniel Amponsah, announced this when addressing bakers and artisans, comprising garage operators, carpenters and woodworkers drawn from the district at separate workshops at Half Assini and Tikobo Number One.
An Italian non-governmental organisation (NGO), COSPE, supported the training workshops.
The artisans were taken through fuel injection repairs, costing, pricing, quality finishing, proper management techniques and book-keeping, to ensure quality production and also reduce waste, while the bakers were taught how to use cassava to make cake, doughnuts, biscuits, meat pie and other pastries.
Mr Amponsah advised the participants to strengthen their groups to enable them to benefit from the Rural Enterprise Fund and other interventions such as the Grant Fund.
He said it was the policy of the government to put money in the training of artisans, especially the unskilled ones in the country, to be skilful and increase production for their livelihood.
Mr Amponsah, therefore, advised them to take advantage of all the workshops and training courses being organised by the BAC to equip themselves with the necessary skills to enable them to become self-supporting, self-employed and independent.
The Jomoro District Business Advisor of COSPE, Mr Maxwell Blay, said his organisation had been assisting both financially and materially in the training of small scale entrepreneurs through its small micro-enterprise systems to eliminate poverty and enhance their businesses.
He advised the participants to put what they had learnt in constant practice in order to become masters of their jobs.
A resource person of the workshop, Mrs Adelaide Sefa Boakyea, advised bakers who were not members of the association to register with it to enable them to benefit from any assistance that would come from the BAC.
She advised the participants to honour their tax obligations to help the assembly to generate enough revenue for its development activities.