The Member of Parliament (MP) for Upper Denkyira West constituency in the Central Region, Hon. Benjamin Ayeh, has noted that the only tool that will provide a sustainable future for the people in the area is not to fend for them on daily basis but to nurture and teach them how to be able to fend for themselves
This, Hon. Ayey believes, is the only way to sustain the livelihood of the people in the area.
Speaking to a section of the media during the commissioning of a vocational centre at Dominase, he said “globalization is now with us and the only way we will keep -up with time is to build the manpower needs of the people.”
He therefore resolved to vigorously embark on projects that will build and develop the human resource capacities of his constituents.
To this end, the Upper Denkyira West MP, who is also the second deputy Minority Chief Whip of Parliament disclosed that he has so far established eight (8) vocational centers across the constituency, and furnished them with 20 hairdryers and 20 sewing machines.
He noted that the projects are aimed at providing employable skills to young men and women in the constituency in their various vocations of choice.
Hon. Ben Ayeh has gone further to pay the apprenticeship fees for all the youth who are learning the hairdressing and tailoring trade in the various vocational schools established in the constituency and has also promised to give a start up kit to each apprentice upon completion of his or her apprenticeship to ply her trade.
Mr. Ayeh indicated that he has contributed immensely towards the formal educational needs of the constituency. The Diaso Senior High School (SHS) located in the Upper Denkyira constituency, for example, has benefited from an ultra modern two storey dormitory which is intended to provide accommodation for about five hundred students.
He has also provided 100 bags of cement towards the construction of a pavilion which will serve as a temporal classroom block for the ever increasing student population of the Diaso Senior High School.
To cater for the welfare needs of the school, Hon. Ben Ayeh through his share of the common fund, has purchased a school bus to serve as a means of transport for the school, and donated two jumbo poly tanks to help curb the perennial water shortage.
Hon. Ben Ayeh has also donated forty (40) computers, as well an assortment of books to the school’s library and has supported financially, various initiatives which have gone a long way to boost girl child education in the second cycle schools.
Mr. Ayeh’s resolve to invest in the human capital of his constituents is not only limited to the second cycle institutions but has also gone down to the junior high level to donate two computers each to all the schools in the constituency and a computer to the district’s directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES) office.
He has given forty (40) computers to the SHS and ten (10) laptops for use at a computer center for Junior High Schools in Ayanfuri and has also donated AKIOLA maths text books and mathematical sets to some schools.
Meanwhile, Over 1, 000 students who are at the various stages of their education, have benefited from his benevolence, through scholarships for brilliant but needy students from the community who have been enrolled in some Senior High Schools, with others in various tertiary institutions across the country.
Mr. Ayeh is now establishing a second SHS in his constituency at Ayanfuri as well as a five unit classroom block, while a second block which is a 12 unit classroom block is at a far advanced stage and hopes to be ready for use by the start of the next academic year.
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