One hundred youth drawn from Obuasi and the surrounding communities for a one-year intensive training in welding and fabrication, mechanical engineering and electrical works under the AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) Obuasi Mine have graduated.
The Youth Apprenticeship Programme was designed not only as a training initiative but also as a pathway to careers and livelihoods that will empower the youth and positively impact the mining communities.
It also equipped them with technical skills that can be deployed across the mining, oil and gas industries and other sectors within the extractive industry.
Mr. Edmund Oduro Agyei, Community Relations Manager of AGA, congratulating the apprentice graduates, also acknowledged their families, friends and loved ones for the encouragement, prayers and sacrifices they offered, which have played a key role in their training journey.
He noted that the youth in the company’s Apprenticeship Programme are not just learning a trade but are also gaining confidence, building networks and developing a sense of responsibility.
Mr Oduro Agyei encouraged the graduating apprentices to work hard and reach their full potential.
“Stay curious, stay ambitious and never stop improving yourselves,” he advised.
Mr Anthony Kwenin, Obuasi West Municipal Coordinating Director, noted that the training of the youth in acquiring skills is basically the responsibility of the municipal assembly or the local government and commended AGA for taking that responsibility on its shoulders.
He stated that the Assembly will team up with Nananom to get the apprentice graduates a place to ply their trade, noting that the Assembly can only develop when the local economy also develops.
The Krontihene of Adansi Dompoase, Kitikyie Bosompim Apenteng, who chaired the function, charged the graduates to venture into other mining areas in search of employment and not limit themselves only to AGA.
From Frederick Danso Abeam, Obuasi
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