Chiefs and people of Klefe Traditional Area in the Ho Municipality under the community’s Self-help Initiative Project have decided to rebuild structures to revive a Technical Institute they established in 1998 to offer technical education for their children.
The Paramount Chief of Klefe Traditional Area, Togbe Koku Dzaga said the institute started as a Vocational Training Center and was financed single-handedly by a Pastor who is a native.
Togbe said the Vocational center later collapsed for lack of commitment by the entire Klefe citizens allowing the structures to rot in the bush.
The Paramount Chief who interacted with 3news at Klefe-Dome said preliminary construction works has started on a vast land on the soil of Klefe to meet requirements of a Technical Institute.
The idea of establishing a Technical and Vocational Training Center in the traditional area according to Togbe Dzaga is to provide their children with the needed opportunities for them to acquire practicals and employable skills in various vocations.
The Paramount Chief noted that what prompted the community to invest in the revival of the Vocational and Technical Training Center is to create sustainable avenue for the many unemployed youth to make themselves available for Employable Skills Training.
In order to keep the Technical Institute running, Togbe Dzaga said the Klefe community took up the responsibility of funding the day-to-day activities of the school through regular communal levies.
Given the importance of technical education to the people of Klefe, the Chairman of Klefe Youth Development Association, Prof. Prosper Nude hinted that the chiefs and the people have agreed to raise funds for the construction of structures at the project site to meet requirements of a Technical Institute.
Prof. Nude disclosed that through commitment and hardworking elites from Klefe, they have acquired documentation for the revived institute to be absorbed into the Ghana Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET).
The Klefe Youth Development Chairman said teaching and learning has started in a 3-unit refurbished GETfund classroom block at Demete Basic School campus and erected a pavilion which temporarily is serving as dining hall and classroom.
A fundraising durbar which coincided with the traditional area’s annual Yam Festival was held to mobilize funds for construction and completion of relevant infrastructure for the Technical Institute.
The Festival and Fundraising Planning Committee Chairman, Evans Kwami Buami said construction of boys’ dormitory has started in earnest at the project site and hope to complete on schedule.
