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From Streets to Skills: Vocational Training Changing Lives
By TT Kumasi, Ghana — At 8:00 a.m. sharp, 19-year-old Emmanuel Mensah is already at his sewing machine. The rhythmic buzz of needles fills the training center where he’s learning fashion design. Just two years ago, he was hawking chewing gum at a traffic light. “I didn’t finish SHS,” he says. “I thought that was the end. But learning a skill gave me another chance.” Across Ghana, vocational and technical training programs are quietly transforming lives — particularly for young people who have fallen through the cracks of the formal education system. In a job market where degrees don’t always lead to employment, hands-on skills are offering a new path…