Personnel of NABCO and their donated food items
Celebrations took place this weekend at Bekwai, in the Ashanti Region, to mark the one-year anniversary of the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO), a governmental programme initiated to address graduate unemployment in the country.
The flagship programme, initiated by the Akufo-Addo-led government, is intended to among others provide temporary employment, improve skills and employability of personnel, improve public service delivery, and improve revenue mobilization.
Bekwai Central Destitute Infamy hosted personnel of the NABCO programme who donated food items worth GH¢2,000 to the inmates as part of the anniversary celebration.
The Bekwai Municipal Director of NABCO, Vincent Kyei Attobrah said personnel were touched by the plight of the inmates after some NABCO officers working at the home reported poor conditions there.
“It was also our way to show gratitude to government and society at large, after becoming benefactors of NABCO, which has engaged about 100,000 unemployed graduates who were “hitherto sitting at home and doing nothing,” he stated.
For Bekwai Municipality, Mr Attobrah disclosed that a total of 379 people were engaged by NABCO.
He called on people to rally behind the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for another four-year term in office, after the expiry of its mandate, in order to expand the programme to cover more unemployed people.
From Ernest Kofi Adu, Kumasi