Source: Isaac Amoah/tntnewspapergh.com

A leading telecommunications giant in Ghana – MTN Ghana – continues to impact the unemployed youth with employable skills.

This time round, MTN Ghana, through its annual programme – 21 Days of Y’ello Care – has trained 12 unemployed Nyinanihi youths in mobile phone repairs.

MTN Ghana officials in a group photograph with the trainees

Besides, the company awarded the trainees with certificates and startup tools.

On Friday, 20th June 2025, MTN staff and officials visited the Nyinahini Data Centre where 12 persons, who were undergoing training in phone repairs received certificates of participation and tools to set up their own businesses.

Mr. Charles Osei Akoto, the Head of Technical for MTN Ghana Northern Business District, who led the team, said the training programmes formed part of the “21 Days Y’ello Care” initiative by MTN where staff members do volunteer work and also embark on initiatives in selected communities.

He said “this year, in the Northern Business District of MTN Ghana, Unity Fashions at Asokwa played host to MTN staff and volunteers learnt fashion designing and others.”

He disclosed that they had trained 12 unemployed youths in how to repair mobile phones and become trainer of trainees to build the capacity of many youths in mobile phone repairs to support their community members.

According to him, mobile phone has become part and parcel of human lives and MTN Ghana thought it prudent to help train many people in phone repairs to support the users, especially in the rural areas where they normally find it difficult to access qualified phones repairers.

Apart from mobile phone repairs, the company also supported the beneficiaries with the necessary tools to start work right after the training.

They were also taught good communication skills in order to accord their potential customers with the needed courtesies. The trainees were awarded certificates as qualified mobile phone repairers.

The trainer of the 12 trainees, Abdul Awudu talked about the things he taught at tbe Data Centre, while Peter Bonsu, a trainee, also gave account on how the training had been beneficial to him and his other colleagues.

On his part, Peter Armah Bonsu, on behalf of beneficiaries of the MTN Ghana-sponsored training, expressed their deepest appreciation to the company for the impactful training.

According to them, before the training, they didn’t know how to even open a mobile phone, let alone repair it.

He advised mobile phone users to seek the services of phone repairers instead of trying to fix their faulty phones by themselves.

The trainees, therefore, appealed to MTN Ghana to extend the training to other communities to also benefit from the destiny-changing training.

Key activities the staff of MTN Ghana undertook during the period included driving a mobile ICT van to educate students in selected schools, delivering skills training to the youth, women and PWDs, providing school uniforms for needy pupils.

Other activities were empowering community members with the tools to thrive in the digital world, providing smart training for farming women in the Northern Region and providing insurance for mobile healthcare, among other activities.