From Richard Owusu-Akyaw
The Edusei Foundation, which seeks to facilitate youth development in Ghana, the United States and Diaspora in a positive manner to improve their knowledge, behaviours and health, has organised a one-day workshop at Bekwai to school the youth on career development and the need to think positive.
Mr. Nawas Yunus and Rev Father Lius Akuoko Sarpong, who took the participants through morality education, advised the youth to be respectful and obedient to their elders.
They urged the youth to be God-fearing and have confidence in themselves, that they can achieve their dreams through hard work.
Rev. Fr. Akuoko Sarpong bemoaned the high spate of disrespect in society, which has seen most adults and children not respecting each other, and stressed the need for us, as a people, to do the right thing.
He urged the youth not lose track of who they are, and always keep their identity intact.
Climaxing the workshop, the 215 participants were grouped into six, and were schooled on professional overviews, with Mrs. Felicia Edusei taking charge of Nursing and Midwifery, while the Coordinator of the Edusei Foundation, Lawyer Lawrence Kyei, handled law.
Business, Education, Medicine and Information were handled by Mr. Derrick Oppong-Agyare, Tijani Hussein Kada, Dr. Juliana Opoku-Manu and Kwadwo Tawiah Edusei respectively.
Participants at the workshop, held at the Dr. Kwame Bawuah Edusei International Centre in Bekwai, were drawn from the Muslim and Christian communities.
They were given Certificates of Participation, note pads and pens, and Edusei Foundation T-shirts.
Mr. Kwabena Kwaw Boadu Edusei, who presided over the event, urged the youth to resort to positive thinking.
Mr. Kwaw Boadu Edusei , a brother of the founder of the Edusei Foundation, Dr. Kwame Bawuah Edusei, urged the participants to work hard everywhere they find themselves, be it in school or a trade, since the school or trade would make them responsible in future.
Alhaji Haide thanked the Edusei Foundation for coming to their aid with such a workshop, saying it had opened up the horizons, and they will take the lessons learnt seriously.