Outreach Africa, a non-governmental organization (NGO), is constructing 75,000 Ghana cedis vocational institute at Whindo near Takoradi. The institute is expected to offer free tuition, free lunch and transportation for students to their residences. Mr. Daniel O. Asiamah, the Director of the Institute, in an interview with GNA at Takoradi on Monday, said already 150 orphans and needy children have applied for admission into the Institute, which would be commissioned next month. He said the NGO was committed to assisting orphans and needy children within the Shama Ahanta East Metropolis to acquire vocational skills to make them self-employed to enable them earn a living. Mr. Asiamah said graduates of the Institute would be expected to establish their own businesses so that they could become less dependent on their families. He said the Institute would have a classroom block, offices, library, and an Information Communication and Technology (ICT) centre. Mr. Asiamah said catering, dressmaking, draughtsmanship, hairdressing and English Language, which would be compulsory for all students of the Institute. Source: GNA