{"id":38566,"date":"2014-08-12T09:53:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T09:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=38566"},"modified":"2014-08-12T10:05:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T10:05:26","slug":"president-to-launch-youth-enterprise-support-fund-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=38566","title":{"rendered":"President to launch Youth Enterprise Support fund today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama will on Tuesday launch the Youth Enterprise Support (YES) initiative in commemoration of the 2014 International Youth Day.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative is to provide more innovative jobs and opportunities to contain unemployed Ghanaian youth across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Youth make up 33% of Ghana\u2019s 25 million population, and recent data collated by the African Economic Outlook showed that unemployment within this bracket stands at a high 25.6%.<\/p>\n<p>The launch will take place at the state Banquet hall at exactly 0700 GMT and will air live on both Ghana television and Metro television.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s launch is \u00a0in fulfillment of President John Dramani Mahama\u2019s 2012 campaign promise where he pledged to support Ghanaian youth to develop their \u00a0innovative business ideas into viable and profitable ventures.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is to create employment avenues for many others in the Ghanaian economy.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, President John Dramani Mahama is expected to team up with the youth at the International Conference Center, Accra later this morning, to celebrate the 2014 international Youth day.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link provided here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/yesyouthsupport\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/<wbr \/>yesyouthsupport<\/a> to get more details ahead of today\u2019s YES launch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Benjamin Epton Owusu\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama will on Tuesday launch the Youth Enterprise Support (YES) initiative in commemoration of the 2014 International Youth Day. This initiative is to provide more innovative jobs and opportunities to contain unemployed Ghanaian youth across the country. Youth make up 33% of Ghana\u2019s 25 million population, and recent data collated by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3104,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-38566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38566","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}