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5th December, 2011
Allocate Adequate Resources For Arts And Culture Sector - Obeng
The Eastern Regional Director for the Centre for National Culture, Mr. Kingsley Obeng has appealed for the allocation of adequate resources for the art and culture industry.
He said this would help the development and promotion of such skills as wood carving, pottery blacksmithing and weaving among others.
Mr. Obeng made the appealed during the Eastern Regional launch of the Youth Capacity Training Programme, organised by the Centre for National Culture and sponsored by the British Council at Akim Oda on Tuesday.
He said the objective of the training programme was to equip the youth with requisite vocational skills to enable them become self-supporting, employable and reintegrated into the mainstream society.
The Director said the programme was also to address the problems of the youth travelling to the urban centres in search for non-existing jobs.
“The youth are an important human resource that must be transformed into dynamic, creative energetic force capable of contributing substantially to the economic development of the country”, he said.
He defined culture as anything that makes the entire life of a person/people and the practical interpretation of the people’s experiences as they attempt to survive and find a balance between themselves and their environment.
“The Art and Culture Industry is perhaps the oldest trade in the Ghanaian society which gives meaning to the beliefs and practices, values, hopes and aspirations and mode of organisation of the people,” he said.
Mr. Obeng said that a survey conducted by his out-fit recently revealed that the art and culture industry, dotted at certain parts of the region were impacting greatly on the socio-economic life of the people.
He mentioned, beads production at Manya and Yilo Krobo districts, wood carvings at Aburi, Adeiso, Okurase, Suhum and Asamankese and cane basketry at Enyiresi, and the traditional paraphernalia and regalia at Koforidua as some of the areas impacting positively in the lives of the people.
The Project Support Officer at the British Council, Madam Patience Adutwum who represented the High Commissioner and said the British government was one of the bilateral donors to Ghana who have demonstrated its commitment to the development of the youth in developing countries.
The High Commissioner, therefore, pledged the full support of the British government in the development of the youth in Akim Oda.
Caption:
Picture 660 shows Mr. Kingsley Obeng launching the programme at Oda.
Picture 673 shows a group photograph of a section of the beneficiary youth with their parents and elders of Akim Oda after the launch
He said this would help the development and promotion of such skills as wood carving, pottery blacksmithing and weaving among others.
Mr. Obeng made the appealed during the Eastern Regional launch of the Youth Capacity Training Programme, organised by the Centre for National Culture and sponsored by the British Council at Akim Oda on Tuesday.
He said the objective of the training programme was to equip the youth with requisite vocational skills to enable them become self-supporting, employable and reintegrated into the mainstream society.
The Director said the programme was also to address the problems of the youth travelling to the urban centres in search for non-existing jobs.
“The youth are an important human resource that must be transformed into dynamic, creative energetic force capable of contributing substantially to the economic development of the country”, he said.
He defined culture as anything that makes the entire life of a person/people and the practical interpretation of the people’s experiences as they attempt to survive and find a balance between themselves and their environment.
“The Art and Culture Industry is perhaps the oldest trade in the Ghanaian society which gives meaning to the beliefs and practices, values, hopes and aspirations and mode of organisation of the people,” he said.
Mr. Obeng said that a survey conducted by his out-fit recently revealed that the art and culture industry, dotted at certain parts of the region were impacting greatly on the socio-economic life of the people.
He mentioned, beads production at Manya and Yilo Krobo districts, wood carvings at Aburi, Adeiso, Okurase, Suhum and Asamankese and cane basketry at Enyiresi, and the traditional paraphernalia and regalia at Koforidua as some of the areas impacting positively in the lives of the people.
The Project Support Officer at the British Council, Madam Patience Adutwum who represented the High Commissioner and said the British government was one of the bilateral donors to Ghana who have demonstrated its commitment to the development of the youth in developing countries.
The High Commissioner, therefore, pledged the full support of the British government in the development of the youth in Akim Oda.
Caption:
Picture 660 shows Mr. Kingsley Obeng launching the programme at Oda.
Picture 673 shows a group photograph of a section of the beneficiary youth with their parents and elders of Akim Oda after the launch
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