AGA matriculates Community Youth Apprentices and Women in Industry Skills Empowerment

AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) Obuasi Mine has matriculated 58 Community Youth Apprentices and 47 Women in Industry Skills Empowerment (WISE) programme at a ceremony at the Anyinam Lodge in Obuasi.

Mr Edmund Oduro Agyei, the Community Relations Manager of AGA noted that the Youth Apprenticeship Programme has made significant strides, having successfully trained over 500 youth since 2019 in technical skills, critical to the company’s operations.

He mentioned that some of the graduates are currently working with AGA, some with Contractors and many others working outside Ghana, while others are self-employed.

Mr. Oduro Agyei said for the first time in the history of the Mine, a deliberate attempt has been made by management to train women in Fabrication, Auto Mechanics, Industrial Mechanics, Crane Rigger and Auto Electricals under the broad name – Women in Industry Skills.

He pointed out that it is the vision of the Managing Director of AGA, Ing. Samuel Pobee that more women get the opportunity to work in the Mine to serve as motivation for other women to strive to be part of AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine.

The Community Relations Manager said the fact that over 1,300 persons applied to be hooked on to the programme and 105 were selected shows how competitive the selection process was and congratulated those who made up the final list.

The Obuasi West Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Faustilove Appiah Kannin, expressed the Assembly’s appreciation to the management of AGA for the many interventions made to improve the lives of the people in the company’s catchment area.

Barimansu Antwi Kwanin II, Benkumhene of Fomena, who represented the Adansihene at the function, said when Nana Nkansah of blessed memory gave  the then AGC the right to mine gold in Adansi in 1897, his vision was to see that the youth were employed in the Mine.

According to the Benkumhene, the vision of Nana Nkansah has now been manifested and thanked the present management of AngloGold for their foresight and love for humanity.

Barimansu Antwi Kwanin II advised the youth to desist from use of drugs.

“If some of the youth who have assembled here for the Matriculation had been certified to be drug addicts, they could not have gone through the process to learn to become engineers and fabricators,” he noted.

Master Siaw Solomon from Dompoase and Emmanuel Buabin of Korfekrom in Obuasi, on behalf of colleague Matriculants, thanked AngloGold for the opportunity.

From Frederick Danso Abeam, Obuasi

 

 

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