The Omanhene of the Asokore Traditional Area, Nana Dr Susubiribi Krobea Asante, has urged Ghanaians to rekindle the spirit of self-help in order to speed up development projects in their communities.
He said years ago, Ghanaians undertook and implemented many development projects in their communities through communal labour.
Nana Krobea Asante gave the encouragement when he chaired the launch of Learn4work, a project that seeks to promote accessibility to qualitative technical and vocational education in Africa. The event took place at Asokore in the Sekyere East District in the Ashanti Region.
Learn4work
Learn4work is a programme developed by Edukans, a Dutch non-governmental organisation (NGO), and funded by The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The programme would train master craftsmen, artisans and students in the maintenance and repair of automatic transmission and electronic cars using modern gadgets.
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It also aims at ensuring that instructors in automotive vocational education and masters and apprentices in the auto mechanic industry meet the scientific and industrial progress in the motor vehicle industry.
The project is furthermore expected to promote partnership among companies in Ghana and The Netherlands in order that a sustainable trade link leading to the importation of vehicular spare parts can be established.
The Omanhene said the Krobea Asante Technical Vocational Institute was established by him and citizens through communal labour.
He mentioned other institutions like the Asokore Methodist School and the community library as some of the facilities built in the town through self-help ahead of government assistance.
Nana Krobea Asante commended the initiators of the programme and pledged his commitment and support to ensure it was successful.
The National Coordinator for the project, Mr Kwaku Owusu Afriyie, said the programme currently supported three projects in Ghana and was operating in several other Africa countries like Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda.
Besides enriching the skills of students of the Krobea Asante Technical Vocational Institute, the Learn4work programme is also targeting 100 master craftsmen and 100 artisans and would cover a period of two years.
He indicated that the use of modern tools in detecting and repairing electronic cars brought efficiency into the auto mechanic industry, and therefore urged the people of Asokore and its environs to give the programme their full support.
The Principal of the school, Very Rev. Patrick Akowuah Addison, said the long-term goal of the project was to ensure that mechanics who repaired motor vehicles had demand-driven skills that would enable them to diagnose, repair and maintain automatic and electronic transmission vehicles imported into the country.