Tourism Ministry to establish paragliding training school at Kwahu

Ghana in the next few months will have its own indigenous paragliding pilots as the Ministry of Tourism makes frantic efforts to establish a pilot training school at Kwahu in the Eastern Region.  

At the grand opening of this year’s Kwahu Easter Paragliding Festival, the Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Catherine Afeku, said the training school will help nurture prospective pilots.

She noted that some pilots from USA have agreed to train the local people who are interested in piloting.

Madam Afeku added that the youth who will have the chance to be trained in this programme will also be employed and this will reduce the unemployment rate in the country.

She was confident that the paragliding will also boost the tourism sector and bring foreign exchange.   

She added that, the initiative will be a legacy the Akufo-Addo government wants to leave behind.

The Eastern Regional Minister, Eric Kwakye Darfuor, who was also at the opening ceremony said “the people of Kwahu will always welcome people from all shades of life to come and experience how Easter is well celebrated in the area.

GBC