GNPC inaugurates Vocational Training Institute for Karaga
The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Foundation on Tuesday inaugurated a 6-unit classroom Vocational Institute at Yong, a farming community in the Karaga District of the Northern Region.
The facility will help train and equip students within Karaga and its environs on technical and vocational skills.
At a ceremony to hand over the building to the Chiefs and people of Yong, the Executive Director of the GNPC Foundation, Dr Dominic Kwasi Eduah, said the construction of the institute at Yong was to enhanced the knowledge of children in the area on technical and vocational skills and its related programs.
He said, it was a request made by the chiefs of the area through their District Chief Executive (DCE) to GNPC to construct a vocational institute for them.
Dr Eduah said part of the GNPC corporate social responsibilities entailed support in three core areas: education and training, economic empowerment, environment and the provision of social amenities.
He said the GNPC over the past years had supported a number of projects in the northern sector, adding that the construction of the facility was among other projects the GNPC had initiated to ensure that Ghanaian children got access to quality education across the country.
Dr Eduah added that, in the coming years, GNPC would implement a number of projects, and more communities in the northern sector would benefit from it.
He however, urged them to take good care of the facility to ensure that the structure was put to proper use.
The DCE for Karaga, Iddrisu Mohammed Saani, on behalf of the chiefs thanked the GNPC for the benevolent work they had been doing across the country.
The DCE said, the GNPC had given them a number of projects and they were really appreciated for the good things they were doing for them, saying that when he made the request, he never thought it was going to come that early.
He said the construction of the vocational institute was the first vocational institution in the entire Karaga area and that it would help stop the migration of young girls going to cities for Kayaye.
FROM YAHAYA NUHU NADAA, KARAGA
