Write for World, a youth-led, youth-focused not-for-profit organisation, has launched a skills training program to reduce unemployment and promote economic growth.

Under the organisation’s 2026 Youth Empowered to Thrive (YET) Project, in partnership with Plan International Ghana, the initiative seeks to build the capacities of youth in green businesses and entrepreneurship.

Districts benefiting from the project.

The project, he noted, will benefit communities that fall under Plan International Ghana’s Southern Programme Influencing and Impact Area(SPIIA).

In all, "13 deprived communities within the South Tongu and Afadzato South Districts of the Volta Region will benefit from the ongoing 'Building Capacities of youth in green businesses and entrepreneurship project'."

Ve-Wudome, Liati Teikrom, Liati Dafornu, Liati Soba, Liati Wote, and Tafi-Atome, are the beneficiary communities in the Afadzato South District, the remaining seven communities in the South Tongu Municipality include Hikpo, Agbogbla, Agbakofe, Kpotame, Atsieve, Dzogborve, and Larve.

About 30 female-youth earlier benefited from the project in the Guan District of the Oti Region under the Fashion Design and Entrepreneurship Programme of the YET Project FY'25.

Background to the Project

The Executive Director of Write for World, Jonas Mabe, explained that the organisation identified a challenge: a lack of practical job-creation skills among youth in rural communities during a post-monitoring and evaluation exercise.

This was conducted after the YET Project FY'25 and resolved to close that gap and further create jobs and employment opportunities for the youth in underserved communities through the YET Project FY'26.

He added that the exercise also discovered a keen interest of female youth in agribusinesses, which they have identified as “income-generating opportunities that align with local ecological conditions and market demand.”

His team therefore designed the project and noted that the training was meant to help locals engage in small-scale, non-capital-intensive businesses.

“The materials needed for Beekeeping and Honey Production, Snailery and Mushroom Production were at the doorsteps of the rural folks,” he said.

120 youths to be impacted in 10 months

Training has since begun at Afadzato South, with the first batch of 60 individuals undergoing theoretical and practical training in beekeeping and honey production, mushroom cultivation, snailery, and entrepreneurship under the YET Project FY'26.

Mr. Mabe said the project targets impacting the lives of some 120 youth in the underserved communities of Afadzato South District and South Tongu Municipality within 10 months.

“We shall provide start-ups after the training to ensure that participants transition into a useful workforce that will add value to the local economy and also facilitate market linkages and cooperative formation for sustainability”, he concluded.

“As a youth-focused organisation, we are confident this initiative will go a long way to eradicate poverty-induced social vices, provide a sustainable source of livelihoods for participants, and reduce the gender equality gaps within the project communities.”

Beneficiaries appreciative of initiative

A beneficiary, Jessica Barns, said the project had been impactful, as she was able to acquire skills that would enable her to engage in economic activity to support her life.

“We promise not to let them down by making sure all the skills that we have been taught will be made useful by God’s grace”, she said.

Another beneficiary, Priscilla Yawson, said the project would provide them with job opportunities and help reduce unemployment in the community.

The Head of Community Development Programmes at the Department of Social Welfare & Community Development, Kweku Ramsey Sikpah, described the project as a unique initiative, as it targets youth aged 13 to 25, an age bracket identified as vulnerable.