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The Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings Foundation
The Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings Foundation is an impact-driven organization focused on empowering and supporting young people to reach their goals
DTI Training and Support Program
With the rising graduate employment rate, an impending youth bulge, a hiring freeze in the public sector and a sluggish private sector economy, there is a need to reconsider how young people are trained for the world of work.
Honourable Zanetor has long advocated for better policies for engaging the youth in preparing them for the future. For instance, on June 4th, 2023, delivering a lecture to mark the 44th anniversary of the June 4 Uprising, Honourable Zanetor called for policies that recognize and consider the aspirations of the youth and implement associated programs.
Vocational skills and apprenticeship training have long been seen as sure ways of gaining employment or starting one’s own venture. Given the long hours of practice vocational education provides, it becomes the testing ground for students looking to join a job of interest.
To ensure that interested the youth in her constituency get relevant training for the job market, Honourable Zanetor has enrolled 10 students from the constituency into Design & Technology Institute (DTI) which runs a well-respected model private Teatly the only dual TVET school in Ghana, which provides theoretical and hands-on training within a production school context, the only such institute in West Africa.
The Institute believes that the traditional TVET approaches to training are overly theoretical and do not equip young people for workplace realities. In 2020, DTI, in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation, embarked on a 3-year project to create job opportunities for the youth by giving formal training to young people in the dual TVET-cum-production school at DTI, training small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) and master craftspersons; training academic and business scale advisors and effecting systems change through collaboration with state actors to shape national policy in precision quality and standardisation.
The Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings Foundation is an impact-driven organization focused on empowering and supporting young people to reach their goals
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