Story: Zakaria Alhassan, Tamale.
THE unavailability of job opportunities continues to be the bane of the youth in the northern part of the country. This has compelled most of them, particularly the out of school girls to migrate down south to engage in menial jobs.
Those who cannot continue with their education for various reasons also idol at home leading to teenage pregnancies and the engagement in other unproductive ventures.
It was to find a way forward for such unfortunate group of people that the Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED), an NGO, organized a two-day career entrepreneurship fair for over 300 young ladies including third year students from senior high schools from 14 districts of the northern region and funded by Blatter and Frick, social investors.
It was envisaged at offering them guidance on their life careers and how to achieve them. The fair was on the theme "Possibilities and opportunities."
Areas covered included career development-formal sector, financing your career, entrepreneurial prospects and opportunities and social entrepreneurship prospects.
There were also motivational talk on life choices and career management. Interactive and inspiration presentations were made by renowned successful career persons such as Mrs. PaullyApea-Kubi of Ebenut Ghana limited, an export company and Mr. Emmanuel Dei-Tumi of the Future Leaders Group.
Others were a lecturer at the University for Development Studies, Mrs. Rukaya Husein and Mrs. Clara Beeri Kasser-Tee of Benchi-Enchill, Letsa and Ankoma, a law firm and
In her presentation, Mrs Kassar-Tee said it was not
easy for her to overcome the numerous challenges to attain her status due to the background she came from, but that through hard work and determination, she was
able to achieve her dream of becoming a lawyer. She was adjudged the best law student for 2009.
She reminded the participants that the world was knowledge-based and that nothing stopped the youth from achieving their dreams.
According to the executive director of CAMFED-Ghana, Mrs Delores Dickson, “the fair has broadened their knowledge and motivated them to set long term goals for themselves and also empowered them to make the right choices.”
The director further explained that, CAMFED believes educating girls and providing economic opportunities to young women is a sure way of lifting poverty out of families in Africa.”
The fair attracted many people from the business, education, entrepreneurial and communication industries, who acknowledged that it would offer them guidance about their choices and how to overcome challenges to achieve their goals in life.
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