The Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), has extended a helping hand to the Northern Youth for Peace and Community Development (NYPCD) with the provision of sewing machines, scissors among others, to help in training the beneficiaries .
The move is part of SADA?s quest to eradicate the kayayei menace found in Ghana especially the capital Accra.
Most often, people from the three Northen regions because of non-existing jobs migrate to the cities in search of jobs. They are mostly found doing kayayei and other menial jobs just to earn them something to cater for their daily lives.
Given that, the kayayei job does not fetch them enough money to rent a room, they end up sleeping on verandas, in-front of closed shops, and the bare ground putting their lives in danger.
In order to help curb the menace and help them with skillful jobs, the beneficiaries of SADA?s gesture received sewing machines and a cash amount to help in training them.
In all 22 ladies between 18 and 30 years drawn from the same kayayei job passed out from the training and each went home with a sewing machine, a pressing iron, a pair of scissors and other items amounting to 1,500 cedis.
Speaking to the media, Yusif Hamid, the Project Manager, lauded SADA for their intervention and the CEO of SADA for his open door policy and frequent visit to the centre.
SADA was established by an Act of Parliament to implement what is largely considered a major development blue-print geared towards the socio-economic development of the three Northern Regions, bringing them at par with southern Ghana.
From Issah Abdul Nasir, Tamale
