20 Young women provided with sewing machines
The Islamic Council For Development and Humanitarian Services (ICODEHS) has donated 20 sewing machines, estimated at GH¢10,000.00, to needy young women in the Koforidua Zongo Community to enable them to undertake apprenticeship in dressmaking.
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At a short presentation ceremony in Koforidua during which the machines were handed over to the beneficiaries, the leader of ICODEHS Women’s Wing, Hajia Azumi Ibrahim, said the organisation was formed to assist Muslim women to acquire different vocations and promote help in development projects in Zongo communities across the country.
She advised the youth to take to other vocations after completing the various levels of formal education to help reduce unemployment rates and poverty in the Zongo communities.
Gratitude
A beneficiary, Madam Mariama Abdul Rahim, on behalf of the other recipients, thanked ICODEHS and urged them to expand their services to other fields of craftsmanship, such as hairdressing and auto-mechanic engineering, to get more youth to acquire vocational training.
Another beneficiary, Madam Rakiatu Tijani, appealed to ICODEHS to establish a facility where needy but young people who were willing to learn a trade but cannot afford a sewing machine could rent them at a very low cost.
Appeal
She appealed to the government and other philanthropists to help establish a bead-making industry in the Zongo communities to train the youth in beads-making, since it is one of the most lucrative jobs.
That, she added, would create jobs for the youth and help reduce social vices in Zongo communities, the region and the country at large.
The Chief Imam of Koforidua, Alhaji Ussif Amdani Sulemana, also thanked ICODEHS for being compassionate and called on other non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and philanthropists to support Zongo communities.
