Centre for Skills Development and Waste Management

In today's world people can not survive without sustainable skills for livelihood support and development. It is imperative that people must develop skills apart from formal education. In Bolgatanga Municipal in the Upper East Region of Ghana, there is high level of poverty among the people especially women and the youth due to lack of skills. In a research conducted, most young people are unemployed because they lack skills in today's fast pace technological world. 
At Atampuuru in Bolgatanga, the women   have  been able to develop multiple products through skills training development with ASIGE. These products are developed out of waste rubbers, grasses, dye, beads, threads, used car tyres and leather. through out the process of the development and  pilot testing,  the women have grouped to form a center into Skills development center  which is aimed at training more unemployed women, men  and most importantly teenage mothers. The center will operate  in training women to develop new skills, entrepreneurship, and financial assistance to establish small scale businesses through the women fund (TWF).
This Center can better the thousands of lives directly and indirectly as well as short to long term solution of waste management that has consumed budgets of governments over the years. First, the only waste management company in Bolgatanga only collects waste to the refuse site. We believe they have not done anything since they are still polluting that part of the environment too.  Our Center is about education  and  skills development using  waste rubbers management and disposal and most importantly, waste collection, sorting, disinfecting, drying, cutting and production of bags in different shapes and sizes for school children and laptops. At each stage a lot of people will employed directly and the benefits to the environment are enormous since we will no longer allow rubbers to get back to society. With these numerous impact that the center will be having on the life of the people and the environment at a lower cost, we believe our innovation is better than others. 
Besides that the center will train at least 200 persons a year  on skills development in weaving in Ghana.
The center is headed by Dorcas Asige Apoore and Monica Akuribire who train the women in weaving and new techniques. Below are videos of training sessions on the You Tube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wto5cygxrjk, 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQWV0P9oa9U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaSXBRr91U0