NEIP sends Entrepreneurship to the Prisons, trains 1,240.

The National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program (NEIP) in collaboration with the Ghana Prisons Service, is making significant strides in transforming lives and fostering societal reintegration.

With the launch of their joint Entrepreneurship and Skills Training Program, NEIP and the Ghana Prisons Service aim to equip inmates with vital entrepreneurial skills and vocational training, enabling them to embark on a new journey of empowerment and self-sufficiency. This groundbreaking initiative reflects the government’s commitment to creating opportunities for marginalized individuals and fostering a culture of entrepreneurship.

Speaking at the launch of the programme, The Chief Executive Officer of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovations Programme (CEO). Mr Kofi Ofosu Nkansah said his office is determined to make our prisons a factory Centre. He said this will help equip the vulnerable in our society with skills and the needed help to set up their business and also employ others. He reveled that the training include detergent making, grains and cereals processing and packaging, and juice processing and packaging from various local fruits.

He added tubers, nuts and legumes processing; local non-alcoholic drinks such as sobolo, asana, atadwe ginger drink, lamuji, saamea; production of yoghurt from palm oil and coconut oil; and the manufacture of cosmetic products are part of the skills the inmates are being trained on.

NEIP CEO believes the production of detergent by the inmates would help to improve the hygiene and wellbeing in the prisons, and help to reduce diseases and rashes, among inmates.

He added that the various food and drink products produced by inmates would improve their own diet and help their overall health.

“It will also help to reduce the resources government spends to provide detergent and fo

The National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program (NEIP) in collaboration with the Ghana Prisons Service, is making significant strides in transforming lives and fostering societal reintegration.

With the launch of their joint Entrepreneurship and Skills Training Program, NEIP and the Ghana Prisons Service aim to equip inmates with vital entrepreneurial skills and vocational training, enabling them to embark on a new journey of empowerment and self-sufficiency. This groundbreaking initiative reflects the government’s commitment to creating opportunities for marginalized individuals and fostering a culture of entrepreneurship.

Speaking at the launch of the programme, The Chief Executive Officer of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovations Programme (CEO) Mr Kofi Ofosu Nkansah said his office is determined to make our prisons a factory Centre. He said this will help equip the vulnerable in our society with skills and the needed help to set up their business and also employ others.

He reveled that the training include detergent making, grains and cereals processing and packaging, and juice processing and packaging from various local fruits.

He added, tubers, nuts and legumes processing; local non-alcoholic drinks such as sobolo, asana, atadwe ginger drink, lamuji, saamea; production of yoghurt from palm oil and coconut oil; and the manufacture of cosmetic products.

NEIP CEO believes said the production of detergent by the inmates would help to improve the hygiene and well-being in the prisons and help to reduce diseases and rashes, among inmates.

He added that the various food and drink products produced by inmates would improve their own diet and help their overall health.

“It will also help to reduce the resources the government spends to provide detergent and food products to inmates.

He announced that the NEIP was collaborating with regulatory bodies such as the Food and Drugs Authority for the necessary legal documents to make the products certified.

Mr. Ambrose Dery, the Minister for the Interior, who was excited by the innovation, said the programme will boost efforts by the Prisons Service to provide rehabilitation programmes for inmates.

Mr. Dery believes many of these young people did not have formal education nor livelihood skills that would enable them to quickly reintegrate into mainstream society upon their discharge hence the need to provide them with the needed skills to help in their integration.

Mr. KUMAH revealed that the 2023 Budget had a special financing project dubbed YouStart, under which GH¢10 billion was being used to support entrepreneurial initiatives across the country.

Presenting the Minister of Finance, Deputy Minister of Finance Mr. John Ampontuah Kumah admonished to the Prisons Service to fine-tuned these skills and make products that can take advantage of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area to provide wider market in West African sub-region.