A total of 1,000 youth are being provided with innovative welding skills by the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) under its Technical and Vocational Education and Training programme in order to enable the beneficiaries to set up their own welding workshops.
The one - year training programme, which is being partnered by Boy Child Supportive Care Foundation (BCSCF) and funded by World Bank, aims to provide welding skills to the youth to help support themselves.
The target group are Ghanaians youth aged 16 to 35 and living within Accra and have either a Basic Education Certificate Examination or West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination certificates.
Speaking at the opening in Accra on Tuesday, the Deputy Director, Commercialisation and Communication Directorate of GAEC, Mrs Sheila Frimpong Mensah, said GAEC had 'tig and mig' welding machines to leverage support in human resource development.