{"id":142922,"date":"2015-08-12T19:36:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T19:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=142922"},"modified":"2015-08-12T19:36:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T19:36:11","slug":"gh%c2%a22-7-million-disbursed-to-yes-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=142922","title":{"rendered":"GH\u00a22.7 million disbursed to YES applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of GH\u00a22.7 million have been\u00a0disbursed to 107 shortlisted young men and women under the Youth Enterprise Support (YES) program, President John Mahama has said at a ceremony on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yes-beneficiaries-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-142932 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yes-beneficiaries-5.jpg\" alt=\"yes beneficiaries (5)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yes-beneficiaries-5.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yes-beneficiaries-5-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yes-beneficiaries-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-142931 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yes-beneficiaries-4.jpg\" alt=\"yes beneficiaries (4)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yes-beneficiaries-4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yes-beneficiaries-4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Mahama had prior to the programme stated that \u201cThey [beneficiaries] had gone through training, they\u2019ve gone through orientation, their business ideas have been vetted, they\u2019ve walked through them to make sure they are feasible, and so the capital bit, which is granting the financing is not at the beginning, it\u2019s rather at the right point of establishing the business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yes-beneficiaries-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-142930 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yes-beneficiaries-3.jpg\" alt=\"yes beneficiaries (3)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yes-beneficiaries-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yes-beneficiaries-3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that the YES programme will start receiving applications for the second batch of beneficiaries soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u201cWe will take more people in, and so those who did\u00a0 not get selected in the first batch should not be discouraged, they should think through their business ideas again and they can resubmit and walk through the process and if they are selected they will be funded,\u201d the President assured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yes-beneficiaries-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-142927 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yes-beneficiaries-1.jpg\" alt=\"yes beneficiaries (1)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yes-beneficiaries-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yes-beneficiaries-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The YES initiative was launched exactly a year ago today and is aimed at helping young and innovative Ghanaians turn business ideas into thriving enterprises.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President was speaking on a state radio station earlier this morning before the award ceremony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-142928 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yes-beneficiaries-2.jpg\" alt=\"yes beneficiaries (2)\" width=\"495\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yes-beneficiaries-2.jpg 495w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/yes-beneficiaries-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also indicated that, the initiative is part of a myriad of programmes to address the problem of youth unemployment in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20331937999_d4864dec91_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-142935 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20331937999_d4864dec91_z.jpg\" alt=\"20331937999_d4864dec91_z\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20331937999_d4864dec91_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20331937999_d4864dec91_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Kwame Botchway\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of GH\u00a22.7 million have been\u00a0disbursed to 107 shortlisted young men and women under the Youth Enterprise Support (YES) program, President John Mahama has said at a ceremony on Wednesday. President Mahama had prior to the programme stated that \u201cThey [beneficiaries] had gone through training, they\u2019ve gone through orientation, their business ideas have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":142928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-142922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}