Ashanti NSS secretariat starts interface programme to orientate senior staff

The Ashanti regional Secretariat of the National Service Scheme has started an Interface programme, by which senior staff at the Secretariat are given orientation to prospective National Service personnel in all tertiary educational institutions in the region. 

At one of such meetings with final year students of the Christian Service University College in Kumasi, the Regional Director of the Scheme, Kwesi Quainoo explained that among the key concepts of the National Service is to make the youth the effective vehicle for national unity and integration to fight xenophobia, and ethnocentrism that have undermined the peace of some African countries. 

Additionally, the Scheme is mandated to properly groom the Ghanaian youth to become not just responsible adults and leaders in society, but genuine patriots and nationalists. 

Mr Quainoo noted that it is for these reasons that since its introduction, the Scheme has always insisted on posting National Service personnel to regions and districts other than their home regions and districts, with the intention of engendering cross cultures.

The NSS Regional Director appealed to the prospective National Service personnel for the 2015/2016 Service Year to willingly accept postings to especially the deprived communities anywhere in the country.

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