The Member of Parliament (MP) for Bekwai Hon. Joseph Osei-Owusu has in what has become a biannual ritual presented assorted set of items to Hairdressing and Dressmaking artisans in the Bekwai Constituency.
For the Hairdressers, the set of items, estimated at about GHC 24,000 each includes 20-Wall-Mounted Dryers and Standing Dryers, Steamers, Tonging sets, Hand Dryers, Hair Straighteners, Sterilisers and Integrated Ceramic Sinks with Chairs.
Valued at a similar cost, Dressmakers in Bekwai also received 20- Industrial Sewing Machines, Steam Irons, Knitting Machines, Button Making Machines, Over-Locking Machines as well as Cutting Machines.
This year’s presentations received an additional boost from COTVET with 15 sets of Industrial machines for 15 groups of Shop and Salon Masters.
Structured under the visionary, “MPs Artisan Support Program”, the equipment presented will ensure that members of the Hairdressers and Dressmakers Association in Bekwai who are apprentices will have the needed tools to learn the required primary and contemporary skills in their chosen fields of trade.
According to the Hon. Osei-Owusu, Masters, Mentors and Trainers who were presented with the equipment can now benefit from the use of the equipment in service of training these apprentices on every aspect of their dressmaking and hairdressing craft.
Additionally, it will also provide the needed start-up for all who have completed and acquired training in hairdressing and dressmaking in the constituency to start their trade without the prevalent hindrances of lack of start-up items.
Director of COTVET, Dr. Fred Kyei Asamoah, indicated that Bekwai is part of the few selected districts to benefit massively from this because Hon. Joe Osei-Owusu had already led the way through the provision of annual support for constituents of Bekwai.
Key to ensuring sustainability and maximum utilization of the equipment, Hon. Osei-Owusu is in addition ensuring that the regular fees and bills and auxiliary expenses of beneficiary apprentices will be paid in full by him and stated that a second tranche of items will be donated in September.
On their part, the beneficiaries commended Hon, Joe Osei Owusu for what they described as “consistent support” from him.
They claimed that interactions they have had with others members of their association in other regions and districts have shown that no other place had benefitted as much as they have received from Hon. Joe Osei-Owusu in Bekwai over the years and assured him of their continued and overwhelming support.
