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NEIP have Created 5000 jobs for Youth in just two Years ‐ Mr Kofi Ofosu Nkansah
The CEO of NEIP has hinted that within two years at office some of the Programmes done in fulfillment of the President’s vision of accelerating the creation of entrepreneurs through Innovation.
According to him, the setting up of an Innovation Department at NEIP to roll out Programmes like National Innovation Challenge, Innovation Symposium & Showcase, Innovation Hackathon, Partnership with MoE to roll out Stemnovation
He made this known on his social media handling that he and his team introduced Entrepreneurship for Restoration to train and set up over 1,200 Prison Inmates in Light Manufacturing in our Prisons.
He further explained that the Forty Five Existing and New Innovation Hubs supported with grants under GETP
Furthermore the Twenty Five thousand Youth Trained in Innovative Agricultural Practices
And the Ten thousand youth trained in Business Development in partnership with the YEA
Mr Ofosu Nkansah reiterated that the Presidential Pitch Season 4 supported a record 30 finalists
The Ten thousand youth trained in Light Manufacturing under Presidential Business Support Programme.
He added that the NEIP GreenHouse Farming in Dahwenya revived
According to him, the Support for Economic Enclave Programmes under CARES to create more Commercial Farmers
The establishment of Youstart Pilot & Youstart GJSP Co-Implementation.
Which 1000s of jobs have been created from these Programmes.
He said that the NEIP is looking forward to do more this year.created from these Programmes.
Source: Thepressradio.com||Joseph Nana Yaw Cobbina