Story: Emmanuel Mordey, Hohoe
FIFTY-FIVE small-scale industrialists have completed a two-day regional entrepreneurial workshop at Hohoe in the Volta Region.
The Unilever Foundation for Education (UFED) organised the workshop, which was facilitated by Empretec Ghana Foundation. It was aimed at upgrading the skills and competencies of the small-scale entrepreneurs.
Opening the workshop, the Chairman of the UFED, Mr Andrew E. Quayson, said since the workshops started seven years ago, they had helped the beneficiaries to expand their businesses, giving them access to bank credit facilities and building on stronger customer service.
He said 770 entrepreneurs had so far been trained in the Greater Accra, Ashanti, Western, Brong Ahafo and the Volta regions.
Mr Quayson noted that developing country determined to reach a middle-income status by 2015, must see the need for vibrant small and middle-scale enterprises.
He said that was why Unilever Foundation saw the workshops as their contribution to the development of the informal sector which employed about 85 per cent of the labour force.
The Head of Credit Operations of EMPRETEC, Mr Nii Ansah Adjaye, said all successful entrepreneurs should have special skills, hence the need to equip them.
He noted that hard work and commitment were the key to success and, therefore, entreated the participants to take the workshop seriously.
The Paramount Chief of the Gobi Traditional Area, Togbega Gabusu VI, noted that lack of requisite skills was the bane of successful businesses in the country.
He, therefore, advised the participants to share their knowledge with others who could not attend the workshop.
Earlier in a welcoming address, the Unilever representative for Volta North, Mr Alfred E. Neizer, urged them to put the knowledge they had acquired to good use, since it had long-term benefits.
He urged them as business people to operate within the laws of the country.
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