The National Entrepreneurship & Innovation Programme (NEIP) of Ghana in collaboration with the Ghana Prisons Service has launched Entrepreneurship and Skills Training Programme for a total of 1,240 Prisons officers and inmates in vocational and entrepreneurship skills.
The objective of the programme is to equip inmates in Ghana’s prisons with entrepreneurial skills and vocational training as an exit plan which will help re-integrate them into society after their term in prison.
The vocational and entrepreneurship skills to be undertaken include Soaps and Detergents, Juice Processing, Grains and Cereals; Nuts, Tubers & Legumes (Groundnut paste, Chocolate spread), Yoghurt/Burkina, Edible oils, Cosmetics (Hair pomade, Body Cream, Shampoo) among others.
The programme was launched by the Interior Minister, Ambrose Derry, Deputy Minister of Finance, John Kumah, and NEIP CEO, Kofi Ofosu Nkansah at the forecourt of the National Prisons headquarters.
