Play Soccer Ghana, a sport for development Non-Governmental Organization has supported 24 young people in Cape Coast with technical, vocational, entrepreneurial, and technology training.

The organization with its Head Office in Cape Coast rolled out program interventions across six regions in the country consisting of 16 females and 8 males with livelihood skills development in vocations that includes soap making, biodigester construction, make-up, baking, and TV decoder installation, through their Street League Program.

The Street League Program is an annual program funded by Manchester City Cityzens Giving in the UK under the Kicking for Change Project in partnership with Play Soccer Ghana with intervention outcomes including improved educational attainment in basic schools, improved life skills, and more people prepared for work in the Central and Northern region in Ghana.

The 2021 Street League Program took place from the 11th to 15 and the 25th to 29th of August 2021 at the Oguaa Football for Hope Centre in Cape Coast.

The first week saw the participants engaged in football activity sessions to improve their life skills, while sessions were organized on topics including Communication, teamwork, leadership, and self-esteem. During the second week, the beneficiaries were taken through vocational skills training.

Welcoming the participants to the training, the Country Director of the program, Franklin Asuo, urged the participants to take the training seriously and remain committed to using the technical and vocational skills acquired to improve upon their living conditions.

This year’s program was done in partnership with the Business Resource Center at Elmina (Komenda Edina Eguafo Abrem) District under the auspices of the Ministry of Trade and Industry to implement the Rural Enterprise Programme.
Two days were set aside to build the capacities of the beneficiaries on entrepreneurship.

Business Development and Marketing Manager at the Business Resource Center in Elmina, Aaron Adusa-Poku highlighted the positive outcomes the training would afford the beneficiaries.

He indicated, acquiring such skills was the smartest way to create employment and reduce unemployment.
Programs Manager of Play Soccer Ghana, Anthony Asante Addo commended the participants for their active participation and proactiveness throughout the entire program and stressed the fact that vocational skills were key to Ghana’s economic development.

He impressed on the participants to put all they have acquired through the Street League Programme from the life skills development through to the vocational skills training to the entrepreneurship training to effective use.

He further stated that the Central Region remained the 4th poorest region in Ghana and as a way of promoting economic development, the PSG in partnership with Manchester City Cityzens Giving plans to implement these programs annually to boost the local economy, especially, now that the youth have been urged to enter into more entrepreneurship job creation

The Board of the Program includes Mr. Kwaku Awotwi (The Board Chairman) and Nana Sam Brew Butler (Vice Chairman.

Other members of the Play Soccer Ghana Board of Directors include Dr. Jimmy Heymann, Mr. Ellis Quarshie,

Mrs. Georgina Quaisie, Mr. Andrew Simpson and Mrs. Ama Gyamfua Abrefa.