The Ghana Export Import (Exim) Bank has organised a workshop to equip participants with effective strategies to start up businesses.
The workshop is expected to train about 75 entrepreneurs who will be given relevant information on how to begin and sustain a business.
Speaking at the opening session of the workshop, the former Chief Executive Director of EDAIF , now Exim Bank said the programme, which is initiated by government in collaboration with EDAIF and University of Cape Coast will give entrepreneurs an opportunity to be innovative.
“You all remember that the President launched the YES programme and that covers everybody. These graduate entrepreneurship has been conceived as a complement to that. A complement in the sense that we want to target the graduate who are unemployed. The government wants to give you an opportunity to utilise your brains to come out with something bankable that can become a business. This is a very simple approach targeting young people to shape their minds to create businesses. We want to see how far you can turn those ideas into bankable projects.”
Twenty entrepreneurs who have outstanding business plans will be selected out of the total 75 who participated in the programme.
The selected ones will be given a start up capital of 100,000 to kick start their business.
Professor at the University of Cape Coast Agric Department, Rosemond Boohene, who facilitated the event further explained that the programme is not only aimed at giving these entrepreneurs start-up capital but also equipping them with the necessary skills that will help become successful.
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By: Marian Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana