The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, has donated fifty thousand Ghana cedis to support the AMAGYEI Foundation’s skills training initiative. This initiative promotes youth empowerment in the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area in the Eastern Region.
The donation was made when management and some beneficiaries of the foundation’s skills training programme paid a courtesy call on the Okyenhene at his palace in Kyebi, Eastern Region, on Monday, 12 May 2025.
The AMAGYEI Foundation was established as the corporate social responsibility wing of the Amagyei Legal Firm to provide legal aid, advocacy, literacy training, mediation services, and skills training for underserved communities.
It is affiliated with the Ghana Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Service. The purpose of the courtesy call was to present products made by the trainees to the Okyenhene and to seek his support in expanding the initiative to other communities in Akyem Abuakwa.
The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, commended the foundation for its efforts in empowering local youth and improving livelihoods.
He pledged his continued support for its initiatives and emphasized the importance of affluent members of society returning to their roots to create opportunities for others, adding that the geography of one’s birth should not determine his or her economic prospects.
“I am so excited with what Ofosua has , one and we need to go back , ome and we need to leave a mark on our society.” Okyehene said.
Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin urged citizens of Akyem Abuakwa to go back home to help their communities.
“The systems in Ghana does not give us the leverage and control and central planning of the economy” he noted
The Managing Attorney of AMAGYEI, an Accra-based Law Firm and founder of the AMAGYEI Foundation, Lawyer Ofosua Amagyei observed that individuals who undergo skills training are also equipped with knowledge in marketing, branding, sales, and customer service among others.
“Marketing, brandin, and how to register with FDA we have taken them through all of that and we are hoping to set up ten of them to enable the to grow their busines, ” she said.
Ofosuaa Amagyei expressed the hope of constructing a training centre for the foundation to aid the training of beneficiaries.
As part of the courtesy call, AMAGYEI Foundation presented to the Okyenhene samples of some of the various items and products that the foundation’s trainees have made.
Among them were; Multi purpose liquid soap, multi purpose surface cleaner, hand wash, black soap shower gel, floor cleaner, hydrochloride bleach, antiseptic, disinfectant, fabric softener, laundry detergent, mosquito repellant, washing powder and sheabutter body cream.
The AMAGYEI Foundation delegation that visited the Okenhene included Nana Obenewaa Oforiwaa Obimpe III, Akyem Maase Hemaa, Papa Brobbey Amagyei, Professor Ebenezer Ayesu and Dr Theophilus Adomako, all of whom are members of the Executive Council of the AMAGYEI Foundation.
The AMAGYEI Foundation is an affiliate of AMAGYEI, an Accra based law firm and has been established as a single purpose vehicle to drive the law firm’s social responsibility initiatives in Ghana.
It is dedicated to provide among others, legal aid support, legal advocacy, economic empowerment, technical and vocational skills training, job placement, entrepreneurship development, scholarships, business start-up kits, literacy and numeracy training, non-formal education in rural and deprived communities in Ghana with the initial focus on Akyem Maase in the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional area.
