{"id":160829,"date":"2020-10-10T17:15:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T17:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=160829"},"modified":"2020-10-10T18:44:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T18:44:13","slug":"australian-high-commissioner-inaugurates-youth-development-centre-in-sunyani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/general\/australian-high-commissioner-inaugurates-youth-development-centre-in-sunyani\/2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian High Commissioner inaugurates Youth Development centre in Sunyani"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Australian High Commissioner to Ghana, Gregory Andrews,\u00a0 has inaugurated a Youth Development Centre in Sunyani to offer employable skills training to young people in Sunyani and Sunyani West Municipalities.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The centre, funded by the Australian government through its Direct Aid Programme, is in line with an \u201cIntegrated Sewing Project\u201d being implemented by the Sunyani Youth Development Association (SYDA) to support vulnerable people and groups to acquire employable skills.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is to create an industrial hub, as part of the Association\u2019s 14-module training programme to build the entrepreneurial capacities of school drop-outs, teenage mothers, people with disabilities and street children.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0According to Mr Andrews, the Australian government is determined to support Ghana to address challenges of youth unemployment, alcoholism and drug addiction as well as irregular migration.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said funding for the centre was mobilised through taxes from Australia. he adviced the Association to manage the facility well to achieve desirable results.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Andrews earlier paid a courtesy call on the Sunyani Traditional Council.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President of SYDA, Atta Akoto commended the Commission for the assistance and also disclosed\u00a0 that the Integrated Sewing Project\u00a0 has planned to offer employable skills training to 200 young people within three years.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Founded in 2015, the SYDA works to facilitate the development of Sunyani and contribute to the nation`s effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian High Commissioner to Ghana, Gregory Andrews,\u00a0 has inaugurated a Youth Development Centre in Sunyani to offer employable skills training to young people in Sunyani and Sunyani West Municipalities. The centre, funded by the Australian government through its Direct Aid Programme, is in line with an \u201cIntegrated Sewing Project\u201d being implemented by the Sunyani [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":160857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/australian-high-commissioners.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}