Yamoransa, the hub of the kenkey making industry in Ghana would soon benefit from an ultra-modern kenkey processing factory under the government's industrialisation strategy to expand local economies.
The facility would be fully furnished with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities including; washrooms, borehole and grinding machines to aid the processing of large quantities of hygienic kenkey for the local and international markets.
Mrs Comfort Garbrah, the Assembly Woman for Yamoransa Electoral Area who announced this at a durbar to mark the international Women's Day said the construction of the factory would be facilitated by the Mfantsiman Municipal Assembly with support from the Chiefs of the area and the private sector.
The women would also be given periodic training programmes on healthy ways of preparing kenkey, branding, financial literacy, book keeping, customer service and other empowerment programmes to promote their businesses.
The Assembly Woman encouraged the women engaged in the kenkey business to form groups to enable them take full advantage of the initiative and other opportunities that may come from government.
She also called for increased support and advocacy for women especially those in coastal communities to help improve on their lives.
According to her, the lack of ready support and advocacy for women in rural communities had led to increased poverty, unemployment and illiteracy, creating a wider gap of inequalities between fishing and non-fishing communities.
Professor Akua Britwum, Director at the Centre for Gender Research, Advocacy and Documentation (CEGRAD) observed that though women had achieved a lot over the years, there was a lot to be done to achieve gender parity, and this she added could be attained when young girls stayed in school and reaped the fruits of education.
She advised parents to cut down their huge expenses on frivolous activities, show keen interest and invest deeply into the education of their children.
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency after the programme, some women engaged in the kenkey making business appealed to government to allow them supply kenkey to all senior high schools across the country to create employment for the youth and also help keep them in business.
They identified illiteracy, lack of jobs and access to flexible loans to expand their business as some of the challenges women in the area faced and called on civil society organisations and corporate bodies to get on board to support them.
They also called for assistance on alternative means of livelihoods and other social support programmes to reduce poverty and unemployment in the area.
Source: GNA
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@Ogyam. Thanks for giving Kenkey factory??, a befitting education.
It is obvious you have not traveled outside Ghana before that explain your $hithole tag. If the women signs a contract wit Ghana Education Service to supply schools with kenkey, does that not constitute a job? Or you wanted the woman to sit in office and sell kenkey. You must do yourself a lot of good by keeping your ignorance to yourself before you embarrass yourself on a platform like this.
i laugh enter flagstaff house. how can this help produce jobs. its becoming obvious there was no clear cut policy for the 1D1F campaign promise. God help us
I hope the factory will not be producing kenkey wrapped in polyethene (plastic) bags as shown in the photo attached to this story. It is becoming a very harmful practise in Ghana to package all our traditional foods in plastics. Apart from the health hazard caused by these plastics when food wrapped with them is consumed, these plastics are also not bio degradable and so add to our woeful sanitation conditions when not disposed of in a proper way. Ghanaians through Government and parliament must please wake up and barn the use of these plastics as has been done in other progressive countries even in Africa