Ghana (MNN) ― Ghana has launched a currency redenomination effort in a bid to fight hyper-inflation. The country has seen falling inflation and steady growth in recent years. Economic growth of about 6 percent is forecast for 2007, though hopes of bringing inflation under 10 percent have been eroded by chronic power shortages.
However, growing economic freedom means workers must be skilled, but training can be hard to come by. Enter: The Oasis International Training Center in Prampram.
OITC's Ambrose Brennan shares the example of how one student, from a salt-mining village went home following his training. "Someone came up to him and asked, 'Could you help us with this? We want to start exporting salt to other West African countries.' So he was expressing how the class had really taught him the importance of responsibility and leadership both in the church and in the community."
Stories like this one underscore the reason the Oasis Institute exists. The Training Center offers classes in Leadership, Financial Management, Understanding God Bible Class, Old Testament Tabernacle, Basic Computer Applications, English, and Study of the Human Body.
Brennan says, "Our motto here is 'Living to train and training to live,' and we're really teaching people from a biblical aspect, how to live their lives in a manner which would be more pleasing to God and which would be more beneficial to themselves."
