A Job Fair 2023 event to promote youth and skills has been held at the Don Bosco Technical Institute in Ashaiman, Tema. This is a joint event organised by the German Development Cooperation and Don Bosco Tech in collaboration with the European Union; this is in tandem with Europe Month 2023.
The Don Bosco Job Fair is an annual event, earmarked to help bridge the industry-academia skills gap in Ghana. This year’s Job Fair is on the theme “Connecting to future prospects: Skilling the youth.” It is a networking and matchmaking event which brought together industry players and graduands of Don Bosco Technical Institute.
It afforded graduating students the platform to demonstrate skills and technical knowledge acquired in their field of training. Organised for the third time in a row, the 2023 job fair climaxed the successful cooperation between Don Bosco Technical Institute and the German Development Cooperation in equipping Ghanaian youth with market-oriented technical and vocational skills in the fields of automobile, electrical & electronics, hospitality, and logistics & warehousing.
This partnership project falls within the framework of Invest for Jobs, the brand of the Special Initiative “Decent Work for a Just Transition,” an initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Deputy Head of Development Cooperation at the German Embassy in Ghana, Ramona Simon, in her address at the event noted; “So far, about 1,200 young men and women have been trained in various vocational and technical disciplines, since the inception of the German Development Cooperation and Don Bosco partnership project in 2020.
Country Director of GIZ Ghana, Mad. Regina Bauerochse Barbosa explained that “with a financial commitment of 1 million EUR through the German Federal Government, our objective is to train 2,000 young people and establish 70% of them in local industries by the end of 2023″.
The Don Bosco Job Fair is in sync with the European Year of Skills. The Ambassador of the European Union to Ghana, H.E. Irchad Razaaly, highlighted that “supporting and including youth to contribute to prosperity and economic growth is one of EU’s main priorities”.