The Level Of “Waakye’ and Sobolo Business to Be Extend to Different Level-, Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid
The Level Of “Waakye’ and Sobolo Business to Be Extend to Different Level-, Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid
The Minister of Inner-city and Zongo Development, Dr.
Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, has revealed plans to assist Zongo women who are into
'waakye' and 'sobolo' businesses.
This, he said, is geared towards empowering them to
become economically productive and to improve their living standards
According to him, this will enable them redirect their
skills into productive ventures to improve household incomes of such
communities.
The ministry has initiated a number of socio-economic
programmes that are aimed at developing the human capacities of the people in
Zongo communities, empower them to be economically productive and support the
promotion of their indigenous businesses in order to improve household
incomes,” he said.
“The Minister added that women who are into the
selling of “waakye,” “sobolo,” “tubani” and “koko” will be given special
training on how package and to add value to their foods. “To this end, the
ministry is working with the National Board for Small-Scale Industries (NBSSI)
to train selected women across Zongo communities who have businesses, and
especially in Zongo cuisine like “waakye,” “sobolo,” “tubani,” “koko” and the
rest of them, first of all, to improve the development and packaging of these
foods in order to add value and increase incomes associated with these
businesses.
NBSSI aims to accredit some of these women to become
ready sources for provision of these foods to conferences, meetings, and
hotels,” Dr. Hamid stated.
Addressing Parliament on Tuesday, November 27, 2018,
Dr. Hamid said government also revealed plans to train the Zongo youth in ICT.
“Mr Speaker, there is also the Zongo Coded Programme, which is to train,
improve and redirect the ICT skills of the youth in Zongo communities into
productive ventures…”
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