Responding to the need of creating job opportunity for the youth and reducing graduate unemployment in Ghana, Agri-impact has teamed up with the National Service Scheme to introduce the Youth Entrepreneurship and Skills Enhancement Program (YESEP).
This program is aimed at providing unparalleled technical opportunities to graduates to build their technical, managerial, and vocational capacities to fit into the job market and be better equipped to take advantage of business opportunities in the agribusiness and SME landscape to become entrepreneurs, employers, and employees along the agribusiness value chain.
As part of building their technical competence, management of Agri-impact consult and the National Service Personnel under the program paid a working visit to Dorothy Kani Company Limited, one of the leading Orange Fleshed Sweet Potato bread processing factory in Ghana. DKCL is an establishment under the 1D1F initiative with funding from the Ghana Exim Bank.
The personnel were taken through the operationalization process and production protocols of the company. Five out of the fifty national service personnel will be assigned to the factory to undergo a nine-month industrial training. Furthermore, ACI intends to request for 200 to 500 service personnel in the coming years.
Additionally, Agri-impact will leverage on its long years industrial expertise and partnerships to reassign some of the new graduates to different organisations based on their academic backgrounds and successful completion of the training.