Rose X Motivates Ghanan Women to Acquire Entrepreneurial Skills

• Rose Xetsa Hadzide mobilized women to equip themselves with technical and entrepreneurial skills
• She emphasized the importance of skills development for economic empowerment
• She pointed out the importance of skills acquisition, especially given the prevailing economic situation

The Facilitator, Rose Xetsa Hadzide, encouraged women to acquire vocational and entrepreneurial skills as a sure way of upping economic participation and financial independence.

She observed that skills development is an increasingly important issue and noted that women should not look up to spouses or partners wholly for livelihood and basic needs.

Rose said this at a liquid soap-making training workshop organised for the people of Adzonkor and Agbedor Kofe in the Agortime-Ziope District of the Volta Region.

Participants, mostly attracted from women and the youth, were thereby equipped with practical skills that could support small-scale business activities alongside ways of improving income generation.

Rose, a final-year Nursing student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, called on participants to apply the skills they had acquired and share the knowledge within their communities as a way of dealing with unemployment.

She noted that creation of jobs cannot be solely dependent on the government's efforts and underscored how entrepreneurship has empowered individuals, especially women, to create employment opportunities for themselves.

"As women, income-generating skills can support self-reliance, while the immediate application of lessons learned and sharing of experiences have wider community benefits," she said.

One of the participants, Kafui Latsu, thanked the organizers for the initiative, and on behalf of the beneficiaries, said they would put to good use the acquired skills to uplift their standards of living.

She added that the training had introduced new opportunities to pursue small businesses and contribute financially to their households.