LRRRC ED Jackson Page, Massa Kromah, Dep for Administration ; Varney Sarnoh, Dep for Operation photographed during the tour
The Executive Director of the Liberia Refugee, Repatriation and Resettlement Commission (LRRRC) says President Joseph Nyuma Boakai is interested in transforming at risk youths in order for them to contributing meaningfully whenever they are reintegrated in the society. LRRRC’s Executive Director, Jackson Paye, said based on this, President Boakai has given the mandate to ensure that at-risk youths are rehabilitated and equipped with the necessary vocational skills so that they can establish their own business or become employable.
Mr. Paye made the disclosure when he led the senior team at the Liberia, Refugees, Repatriation, and Resettlement Commission on a tour of the renovation of the LRRRC temporary shelter in the Township of Johnsonville outside Paynesville during the weekend. The LRRRC boss commended the at-risk youths agreeing to undergoing rehabilitation because their conditions have improve dramatically since their arrival there.
He disclosed that the President has given a special committee comprising of the LRRRC, Gender, Youth and Sports and chaired by Health Ministries to ensure that the at rick youths are rehabilitated Also remarking during the tour of the LRRRC Temporary Shelter Deputy Executive Director for Administration, Madam Massa Kromah informed the at-risk youth that the government is on finishing touches of the youth training center in Bentol where each one of them will be given employable skills.
According to Madam Kromah, several departments including carpentry, mechanic, masonry and plumbing, will be available for them to learn so as to contribute after their completion of their training. “We are very encouraged by the transformation that have taken place in your lives in a relatively short period of time,” she said. “Within the couple of months, you will be transferred to the youth training center in Bentol so you will be trained with the necessary skills for you to be marketable and employable,” indicated Madam Kromah.
During the tour, the team visited the theatre, dormitories, the bathrooms, the dining hall, the kitchen, generator house and the garden made by the at-risk youth. According to the LRRRC camp manager, there are about 120 at rick youths undergoing rehabilitation at the center.
