EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Let Ghana is Ghanaian owned company designed to offer services to both males and females in the rural and urban areas in Ghana. Established in August 2016, the company is aimed at offering livelihood empowerment, entrepreneurial support and skills acquisition to clients through recycling for a cleaner healthier environment.
Let Ghana do not only produce but also train in the designing and making of the various products which are useful and needed on the Ghanaian market and give them an opportunity to earn income.
In this period of high levels of unemployment among the youth, both with formal and informal education, the establishment of this company comes into being at such a time where rural urban migration is highly patronised and early and forced marriages is a bone to contend with among teenage girls. Making clients independent through skills acquisition and livelihood empowerment is the sole mandate of let Ghana.
COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Introduction
Unemployment in Ghana is not a recent phenomenon. The problem has persisted as far back as the 1980s when economic development is said to have been positive. The question that naturally arises from this fact is why has the country not been able to resolve this issue? Or why has this situation been so persistent? Answering this question, many interesting views have been shared. For some people, successive governments have not done enough whilst others blame the grammarian nature of the educational system in the country. Yet others have blamed students and graduates for not baking themselves well before graduating. So thus far, it seems the debate has largely been a blame game. Boateng and Ofori (2002) have however found that the perception of quality of graduate output varies between policy makers and employers; whilst the former perceive poor or falling output, the latter believe that recent graduates have been satisfactory on the job. The issue of quality borders on the possession of some specific skills considered relevant to job performance. Research has clearly shown that employers do not necessarily require certificates but the ability to perform and this has led to increasing demands for these qualities namely computer, analytical, managerial and technical skills to name a few.
According to Squire (1981), in the 1960’s and 1970’s, there were 33% more jobs for new entrants with secondary education or higher. Also, the share of graduates in advertised jobs increased from 30% in 1981 to 45% in 2000. Again, a survey commissioned by the Ministry of Education in 1996 intended to examine the labour market experience of graduates found that 71% of graduates sampled found jobs within five months of completing national service with about 61% employed in the formal services and 3% in big companies. Comparing the above to current statistics, it becomes alarming. Only recently, the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) has indicated that about 50% of graduates from the 2011 graduating year may wait up to 2014 without finding jobs. Moreover, a careful juxtaposition of enrolment and graduation figures with current job availability does not present a lively picture.
The long period for which this problem has lingered on seem to suggest that it is insurmountable. This thinking has become even more profound because little is being done to remedy the situation. Politicians over the years have continuously offered enticing and somewhat empty promises on providing an antidote to this problem which is not suffered by only university graduates but also senior high and junior high school graduates.
In recent years most people are not able to further their education after the junior/senior high level. Successive governments have made frantic efforts to make education free and accessible to all. The erstwhile John Mahama administration introduced the progressively free senior high education which is been continued by the NPP administration led by President Akufo Addo.
This problem is very peculiar in the northern part of the country with most rural settlers moving into the urban centres for non-existent jobs. These people both men and women end up carrying goods and embarking on all manner of activities without been spared by the mercy of the weather since they mostly have no place to stay. It is on this premise that a group of young enthusiastic women have put together this vision of engaging these young people and empowering them to be useful to the society and be independent irrespective of where they may find themselves. The company seeks to train and empower people to produce various household detergents and from plastics, produces bags, bracelet and slippers.
Let Ghana as hereby called the name of the company is registered under the laws of Ghana and incorporated in August, 2016. The company is aimed at empowering people mostly women of Ghana in the rural setting who may be school dropout and or having challenges in furthering their education by equipping them with skills and knowledge. Which can in the long run reduce early marriages among girls when they are empowered to become independent.
Mission
To offer entrepreneurial support and skills acquisition to clients and livelihood empowerment through recycling for a cleaner healthier environment. This will be done through training in various products which are useful and needed on the Ghanaian market and give them an opportunity to earn income.
Vision
• To become a leading company that trains over three hundred people yearly in the next few years
• To be internationally recognised in the World.
• To help reduce early and forced marriages by making young girls independent.
• To establish a vocational and technical school in the next few years