Our why
The best antidote to poverty is SKILLS TRAINING AND ENTREPRENUERSHIP.
The heart of LEGACY IMPACT is to build a career institute where the youth in Ghana receive innovative leadership, business, and skills training with a view toward entrepreneurship and specific industry opportunities.
In Ghana, young people aged 15-35 constitute 38% of the population, while children under age of 15 make up another 35%.
According to the Ghana Statistical Service, the national youth unemployment rate for young adults of 15-24 years, is about 32.8%.
The current minimum daily wage in Ghana is Ghs 14.88 ($1.35) per day and Ghs 461.28 ($41.85) per Month.
Research has revealed that only about 10% of all University graduates gain employment in the public service annually and this has left many graduates to wallow in a mental frame of hopelessness.
Children are often forced to dangerous fishing practices because of the poverty cycle. Preventing families from resorting to this practice will be pivotal in changing the cycle of Poverty.