BigStep to hand over training school to community

BigStep Foundation, a nongovernmental organization in the Birim North District in the Eastern region is to hand over a new training school it has constructed for the Hweakwae community to enable the school to commence.

The apprenticeship training centre was constructed with financial and technical support from students from Delft University in Holland. 

The Assemblyman for the Hweakwae Electoral Area, Bernard Owusu-Boateng in an interview with Ghanadistricts.com disclosed that a second batch of students from the Netherlands came to provide furniture and also brought along tools and other important equipment for carpentry and masonry works; adding that because of the availability of these tools, the school will start with these two causes.

Mr. Owusu-Boateng also noted that Nana Osei Agyeman Prempeh Dwamena II, Hweakwaehene, an Educationist is seeking support for the centre to have a solid ground to be able to meet the goals and aspirations of the community.

The centre is to equip the youth in technical and vocational skills to provide alternative livelihood to the people as increased mining activities is gradually depriving the indigenes of land for farming activities which have been their main economic activity.