The Rotary Club of Sekondi-Takoradi has called on vocational students in the country to utilize the skills acquired to establish their own businesses.

Addressing students of the Takoradi Opportunity Industrialization Centre (OIC) on the topic: “Using your Acquired Skills to Start your Own Business”, Rotarian Justice Kwamina Addison, called on students to be ingenious in applying their acquired skills.

The Career and Guidance Counseling programme was organized by the Rotary club as part of activities to mark vocational services month.

Rotarian Addison, a member of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), said it was important for students to change their mindset from the perception that government was supposed to provide them with white-collar jobs after school and rather start their own initiatives.

He said starting a business did not require huge financial base but with determination, perseverance, hard work and discipline, one would be successful.

Rotarian Addison urged students to envisage their plans and actualize that by critically analyzing their strength, weakness, opportunities and threats so as to make decisive decisions that would have a positive impact on them.

President of the Sekondi-Takoradi Rotary Club, Rotarian Ebenezer Allotey, advised students to form business partnerships after school in order to collectively use their resources to set up their own enterprises as well as accessing financial support from banks.

He entreated them to develop the culture of saving and desist from social vices that could ruin their future.

The Rotary club of Sekondi-Takoradi pledged to support this year’s best student from the school with GH¢500 to set up a business of his or her choice. Rotary club international is a worldwide organization made up of successful professionals and entrepreneurs that support under privileged in society.

It has about 1.2 million memberships worldwide.