In May 2020, Nana Owusu Fakyewaa, Kyidom Hema of Senase led the International Organization for Migration (IOM), a UN-based non-governmental organization that assists the youth in obtaining legal immigration from Ghana to other countries in collaboration with BOK Africa CONCERN to build a soap resource centre at Senase in the Berekum East Municipality of the Bono Region.
After the commission of the resource centre, the organizations promised to put up a warehouse to provide storage for the soaps that will be produced. True to their word, the warehouse was put up and was commissioned on Saturday, 6 November 2021.
The nice edifice is to help prevent the youth from illegal migration to seek greener pastures. The warehouse was built in collaboration with Volunteer international Ghana(VIS), BOK Africa Concern, Berekum East Municipal Assembly, Senase community and Architetti Senza Frontiere Sicilia Calabria.
Speaking at the commissioning at Senase, Ms Silvia Tizzi (VIS) explained that, BOK Africa, IOM VIS are NGOs who help the youth to acquire skills in soap making and farming to be self-reliant in producing locally and thus preventing illegal migration from Bono, Bono East and Ahafo regions.
The soap resource centre has trained over one thousand three hundred (1,300) people in Berekum, Sunyani, Techiman, Dormaa Ahenkro, Wenchi, Berekum West district, Nkronza and other communities in (Bono, Bono East, Ahafo). All trainees are to benefit from this warehouse in Berekum. The warehouse will serve for the production of Ghanaian local soap.
Nana Owusu Fakyewaa thanked the NGOs and various stakeholders for the kind gesture of supporting the local soap production and agriculture production in Senase and other parts of the Bono, Bono East and Ahafo Regions. She promised the warehouse house will be put to good use and maintained to serve the intended purpose.
Some Dignitaries present were members of Senase traditional council, Rev. Fr Robertson k Sung Iribe,
Mr Nuhu Salifu Dimah (Bono regional director Business Advocate Center), Ms Victoria Dankowaa (President black soap association, Berekum), Mr Alfred K Gborglah (Berekum Social welfare), Mr Sebastian Nucifora, Mr Alessandro Villari (ASF Sicily Italia) and some beneficiaries and members of the community
