German Sparkassensitiftung DSIK has organised a 5-day residential training session for 20 African Migrants at the Ghana Credit Unions Association Centre (CUtraC), Kasoa in the Central Region.
Participants comprised African Return Migrants, Migrant Workers, Migrant Entrepreneurs and students.
The training programme, which was executed by German Sparkassensitiftung DSIK for International Co-operation, started from 6th and ended 10th February, 2023.
The project, which is funded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and implemented by the German Sparkassenstiftung Western Africa, aims at supporting Return Migrants and Potential Migrants to build for themselves, a source of livelihood from their own business. To that end, business training and coaching sessions are offered to these target groups.
The German Sparkassenstiftung for International Cooperation (DSIK) is the development-policy arm of the Sparkassen Finance Group. In West Africa, DSIK implements projects in priority areas designed to foster financial inclusion i.e., Capacity Development, Financial Literacy, MSME Finance, and Institution Building.
The German Sparkassenstiftung has been supporting financial institutions in developing and emerging countries by offering needs-oriented financial services. German Sparkassenstiftung pursues this objective to enhance the professionalism of its partner institutions, thus enabling them to offer their customers a permanent access to financial products.
The Facilitators for Business Training 55@CUTrac Session of the German Sparkassensitiftung DSIK Business Training, Madam Doreen Addae and Mr. Richard Danso Boamah taught the trainees both theory and practice of the topics treated.
In his welcome message for trainees on the day one, the Business Training Programme Officer of German Sparkassensitiftung DSIK, Mr. Benjamin Adomako urged them to seriously take the opportunity offered by the training to improve their livelihoods.
Mr. Justice Baako Ntarmah, the General Secretary and Head of Education International Relations of the Migrant Labour General Workers’ Union International (MLGWUI) in his closing intervention urged Migrant Trainees to apply knowledge acquired into practice and avail themselves for follow-up training programmes to ensure they are well equipped for the business market.
The Trainees received certificates of participation and support.
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