CLEC Ghana Empowers Youths in the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis

The Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Communications (CLEC Ghana) has organized a mentorship program for final year students in the Senior High Schools located within the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis of the Western Region to instill in them good leadership qualities in order to live exemplary lives.

The program was under the theme, “My Career – My Life”, and aims at revealing some challenges that many graduates go through later in their career. Among these challenges are graduate unemployment, fear of failure to start a business, career neglect, unpaid jobs, no satisfaction for job and family discourse among others.

The program was to orientate and motivate participants to make the right choices in the area of discipline at the tertiary level and build their ego with the ‘can do spirit’. It also proved to them that the road does not end there with them in achieving their goals in life despite becoming a drop-out and provided strategies to overcome them or achieve their life goals.

Participants were taken through topics like what is a career, why should I be worried about a career, what should I consider before choosing a career, vision and goal setting, entrepreneurship, and making enquiries and making firsthand experiences among others.

Speaking to the media at the maiden edition of the program held at the Adiembra Senior High, Director of CLEC Ghana, Rev Seth Ameyaw Danquah said that the lack of proper mentoring for students may result in them indulging in casual deeds that can ruin their future.

He divulged that the program would be held in ten senior high schools in the metropolis to empower the final year students to aid them in the fulfillment of their career dreams and expressed the hope that participants will get the opportunity to understand the fundamental principles that bring about success.

According to Rev Danquah, “we have a role to play in shaping the future of these young ones for the future of this country because it is our responsibility to empower them to develop a certain level of confidence in becoming who they want to be”.

He admonished the students to be like David who lived to serve his generation and urged them to endeavor to learn and improve themselves by adding value to themselves, acquiring new skills and attending seminars. “Don’t look down on yourself, it does not matter where you’re coming from, your family, town or tribe. Know that balloons do not fly because of their colors but what is in them and there are great potentials in you.”

He announced that CLEC is a non-for-profit organization that runs leadership and professional development programs designed to equip recent and unemployed graduates with employability skills and other requisite skills to enable them find alternative career opportunities and be relevant to the labour market.

Members of the Guidance and Counseling Unit in the schools commended the Center for their initiative and wished to make it an annual event to make the students resourceful. They also pleaded with the Center to extend its programs to those in first and second year.

By:Apt News Desk