Ghana: Solicit Migration Counselling Earlier than Travelling – Ntarmah
Head of Training of the Migrants Labour Basic Employees Union Worldwide (MLGWUI), Mr Justice Baako Ntarmah, has suggested Ghanaians who search to journey exterior the nation for greener pastures to solicit migration counselling earlier than embarking on their journey.
In keeping with him, there have been many doubtful journey brokers on the market who lured their victims into accepting “juicy” provides of working overseas for large sums of cash.
Nonetheless, he mentioned actuality dawned on the victims after they arrived at their locations and discovered the brokers they handled had not been totally truthful with regard to the sort of job promised them earlier than accepting the supply of travelling.
He gave the recommendation on the closing of a four-day enterprise and entrepreneurship coaching for returnee migrants held on Friday at Akweley within the Awutu Senya East Municipality of the Central Area.
It was organised by the MLGWUI in collaboration with the German Sparkassen stiftung for Worldwide Cooperation (DSIK).
The coaching was aimed toward equipping beneficiaries on the related abilities required to correctly handle companies whereas encouraging those that had been but to get employed to be entrepreneurially-minded.
Mr Natarmah said that some Ghanaian migrant employees confronted numerous challenges at their locations requiring them to take the tough choice of returning residence with out attaining their migration functions.
He mentioned for individuals who left the nation as a consequence of financial hardship, returning to face the identical monetary difficulties was an enormous burden to them as most of them had households who trusted them for survival.
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It was for this causes that, he mentioned, his outfit determined to sometimes solicit funds to organise such workshops to carry returnees collectively and supply them the wanted assist.
“We obtain complaints each day from refugees and immigrants about their exclusion from sustainable and supportive enterprise coaching and training coaching initiatives, which the DSIK is offering for normal migrants so I’m pleading with the DSIK to increase this mission in order that immigrants who’re members of the MLGWUI will preserve benefitting from such educative initiatives,” he mentioned.
The coordinator of DSIk initiatives in Africa, Madam Sussane Giese, urged contributors to utilise the information acquired so as to add worth to their companies and in addition undertake the behavior of saving in direction of the longer term.
She additionally inspired them to be strict on document maintaining in enterprise to allow them to keenly monitor their progress and realise how briskly or sluggish the companies had been shifting on the proper time.
Correct document maintaining, she burdened, was very crucial for the expansion of each enterprise regardless of how large or small it’s.
She assured that her outfit would proceed to assist weak migrants and returnees whereas hoping to carry an finish to the discrimination and injustice a few of them confronted exterior their international locations.
