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18Apr

Eliminating Streetism via Education

As part of our goal to eradicate street-ism and support a homeless, poor and unprofessional youth to develop professional skills to enable them establish businesses or for improved employment opportunities for a brighter future, we have developed a Youth Empowerment Program.  This program will select homeless street youth and give them training in the building industry, vehicle repair industry and home care industry.  Trained youth will have tools and finances to establish their own businesses.

In addition, the Foundation will provide counselors and monitoring agents, who will aside counseling trainees, will also help them identify the programs which will best suit them.

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18Apr

Street Hawking – A Ticking Time Bomb

Many scholars have written seminal articles on the growing phenomenon of street hawking in major cities of the country.

As the country’s middle class begins to expand, the quest for survival by the deprived and marginalized in the society has pushed many jobless young ones into the streets.

Street hawking was in the past restricted to the central business districts of Accra, Kejetia and the Adum areas in Kumasi as well as some few travellers’ stops on some major highways in the country. Kpong, Atimpoku, Nsawam, all in the Eastern and Winneba Junction are good examples.

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