The President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kurt E.S. Okraku, on Tuesday, July 29, led a delegation of the Executive Council to engage the Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), Malik Basintale, on strategic youth development.
The engagement held at the YEA office in Accra focused on youth development and strengthened the existing collaboration between the two institutions.
Topics discussed at the meeting include financial support for football clubs, particularly women’s football and leveraging football as a vehicle for youth empowerment and employment.
Speaking at the meeting, President Simeon-Okraku emphasised the longstanding relationship between the GFA and the YEA, recalling a crucial moment during the COVID-19 pandemic when the YEA extended financial support to women’s football in Ghana.
The GFA boss described the partnership as historic and impactful, particularly for female footballers who, for the first time, received monthly stipends through YEA's intervention.
“Just like your good selves, we also employ the youth of our country. In the last few weeks, the entire country had been glued to their TV sets watching our beautiful Queens glow at the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations. They are back in Ghana and belong to the youth category, so clearly there is a lot of potential synergy between our good selves and YEA,” Kurt Okraku said.
He continued, “I came here with a strong team to explore the opportunities that exist between our two entities in this strategic space that we occupy. I am very excited about the opportunity to dialogue and to explore how best we can impact the youth of our country.”
On his part, the CEO of YEA, Malik Basintale, said his outfit is determined to build on its existing relationship with the Ghana FA while making an impact in society.
“I've engaged the President of the GFA on ways of exploring opportunities for the youth of our nation. We are determined to leave a legacy of impacting society before we bow out at some point in our lives. The YEA and the GFA have a longstanding relationship, and we'll seek to build on it,” he assured.
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