Kwansema
KWANSEMA EDITH Arthur, 2021 Central Regional representative of Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB), has launched the Kwansema Cares project aimed at repurposing non-formal education for youth development in the Central Region.
The project also targets providing vocational skills training for school dropouts who are ready to effect change in their communities to reduce the rate of social vices recorded in the region.
It was launched as part of her welcome durbar organised by the chiefs of Anomabo in the region.
According to Kwansema, the Central Region is fraught with school dropouts and unemployment. The former GMB contestant says the menace has contributed to many vices in the community, including teenage pregnancy, drug abuse and hooliganism.
She said this unfortunate situation is robbing these young people of their future as they are sucked deeper into the abyss.
“In the Central Region, drug abuse is on the rise. It keeps growing with school dropouts. Even though we have great schools in the vicinity, the people don’t go to school. Some don’t get the opportunity.
“Others get the opportunity, and they don’t know what to make of it. I have had conversations with some of these girls and boys. And most of them have regretted it and wish they had another chance at life,” she disclosed.
The Kwansema Cares project will serve as a beacon of hope for these young people by introducing technical and vocational skills training for school dropouts who are ready to effect changes in their communities.
“Even if they are too old to go through formal schooling, we will give them other opportunities in the non-formal education, like vocational training. If she knows how to do makeup, I don’t think she would sleep with a man for money. If he trains to become a barber, he won’t go and steal from people. We should equip these youth with skills,” she continued.
“I’m taking up this initiative because I had the chance to go to school, but someone has been deprived of education. If the youth in the region are independent the cases of theft, teenage pregnancy and all other negativity will be erased from our communities and the Central Region will be great again,” she added.
Kwansema Edith Arthur was the most awarded contestant at this year’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful; winning two times most eloquent, star performer, best custom and in-house competition such as the Camel indoor activation challenge and the Holy Trinity Health exams, but sadly bowed out on the semi-final stage of the competition.
BY Prince Fiifi Yorke