BAC TRAINS 46 IN POMADE MAKING (Page 20)

Story: George Folley Quaye, Wa

THE Business Advisory Centre (BAC), under the Rural Enterprises Project (REP) in the Jirapa-Lambussie District in the Upper West Region, has trained 46 people in pomade, hair food, powder and soap making.
The training programme was part of the REP's intervention to reduce poverty and improve the living standards of the people.
The specific objectives of the workshop were to expose the participants to new and improved methods of manufacturing the products and to encourage them to consider self-employment as a viable career option.
The participants were taken through eight different types of soap making—bar, box rail, cake, mini, ball, washing powder and Azuma blow soap and manufacturing various types of creams — hair, wax, 'obateng' cream and medicated sulphur cream and powder.
The Regional Head of the BAC, Mr Mohammed A. Moomin, in his address, said the REP was a government project designed to improve the living conditions in rural areas, by increasing the income of women and vulnerable groups, especially.
He appealed to the people to patronise the services of the BAC in order to get the full benefit of the project.
Mr Moomin urged the beneficiaries of the programme to practise the knowledge and skills they had acquired.
The Deputy District Co-ordinating Director for Jirapa-Lambushie, Mr Safo William Mumuni, in his closing address, commended the participants for their active interest in the programme.
He assured them of the district assembly’s readiness to assist serious-minded entrepreneurs to improve upon their businesses.
Mr Mumuni seized the opportunity to encourage the youth to venture into private businesses and also appealed to the public to patronise the products of those who had been trained.
He stated that only four out of the eight districts in the region namely, Nadwoli, Sissala East, Sissala West and Jirapa-Lambussie, were benefiting from the project.
One of the resource persons, Mr Abdulai Samaila, stressed that the products had been tested and accepted nation-wide, adding that they were of good quality.