Malaysia donates equipment to National Chief Imam
The Malaysian High Commission to Ghana, through the Malaysian Technical Cooperation Programme (MTCP), has presented vocational skills equipment worth GHc6,000 to the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Osumanu Nuhu Sharubutu.
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The items, which included sewing machines and some basic barbering and hairdressing equipment, are to support the Islamic Peace and Security Council (IPASEC), an ongoing project to establish a one-stop training centre at Fadama in Accra.
The centre, when fully operational, will provide vocational skills training for the youth in the community, a development which will ultimately create self-sustaining jobs for them.
It is also intended to build an entrepreneurial spirit among the youth, especially those in the Zongo communities where many families are deprived.
Trainees will learn tailoring, fashion designing, barbering and hairdressing. Participants aged between 16 and 45 are being targeted.
MTCP Programme
Throwing more light on the MTCP at the presentation ceremony in Accra yesterday, the Malaysian High Commissioner in Accra, Mr Loon-Lai Cheong, said the programme was in line with his country’s commitment to promote South-South co-operation, which basically promoted closer cooperation and partnership among developing countries.
“It’s about sharing and building solidarity towards the well-being, self-reliance and progress of people in developing countries,” he said.
He said Malaysia attached great importance to the development of human capital and other national resources, hence its support for human resource development.
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He said since 1981, more than 200 Ghanaians had benefited from the MTCP and recalled that over the last two years close to 30 Ghanaians had been trained in Malaysia.
Mr Cheong named the sectors in which the beneficiaries were trained as agriculture, economics, science and technology, finance and trade, education and management.
He expressed the hope that the training centre would be self-sustaining in the future.
Effort laudable
Sheikh Sharubutu, who received the items, lauded the Malaysian High Commission for supporting a project that aimed at helping the underprivileged.
He said the Malaysian Mission had set the pace by supporting Muslim communities.
He prayed for Allah’s guidance and protection for the people of Malaysia and pledged that the items would be put to good use.