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WEDNESDAY, JULY
25, 2007. NO. 150108.
Liberty
Institute marks 20th anniversary
Story: A. Kofoya-Tettey
LIBERTY Specialist
Institute, a Vocational training centre at Koforidua, has
celebrated its 20th Anniversary.
The event coincided with the
passing out of 120 students, who studied various Courses such as
Intermediate and Advanced Catering, Accommodation Operation
Services, Food and Beverage Services, and Fashion & Design. The
significant aspect of their graduation was that all the
graduands were supported with funds to set up their own
businesses.
Addressing the gathering, the outgoing Eastern Regional
Minister, Mr. Yaw Barimah, asked the graduands to be innovative
and put to good use the skills they had acquired, since that
would enable them to generate appreciable income not also for
their sustenance, but also for their future families. He praised
the founders of the institute, the Rev. Mrs. Edna Ametameh, and
her husband for their foresight that had enable the youth,
particularly young women, to acquire skills to enable them to
earn a living.
Mrs. Ametameh, for her
parts, advised the graduands to start life in a humble way, and
strive to work hard, since nothing was obtained on a silver
platter. She expressed the institute’s gratitude to a number of
individuals, reverend ministers and organization whose efforts
had helped to shape the lives of the students.
Mrs. Ametameh also expressed gratitude to Global Women on a
Mission from California in the United States, for setting up a
scholarship scheme for needy students, the German Development
Service for turning the institute’s KVIP place. Of convenience
into a water closet system, as well as the University of
Southern California and African Millennium Foundation for
assisting the institute in diverse ways.
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SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2006.
Liberty
Specialists Institute Holds 18th Graduation
Rev.
Mrs. Edna Ametameh, managing director of the Institute, presenting a
prize to a graduands.
From ‘Spectator’ Reporter, Koforidua
Over one hundred and eighty student have graduated from the Liberty
Specialist Institution at the 18th Graduation ceremony at
the weekend in Koforidua.
The graduands undertook courses in cookery, fashion and designing,
housekeeping and food and beverage service and advance cookery. In
her speech, the principal of the school, Madam Josephine Lydia Odame,
urged parents to pay the school fees of their children themselves
since some of the student squander their fees.
She said that the inability of some parents to pay the school fees
of their wards have resulted in huge arrears amounting to over ˘24
million owned by the graduands.
The principal also said that there much improvement in the National
Vocational Technical Institute (NVTI) results in both catering and
fashion and hoped that student would do better . she said the school
has been running under the generosity of some German couples who
built a canteen and erected a borehole which has been serving the
whole campus.
The school has also got a computer laboratory which is yet to be
equipped with computers to enhance teaching and learning. Madam
Odame said the school’s curriculum would be revised next academic
year to enable students go directly to the polytechnics universities
after completion. The New Juaben Municipal Chief Executive ,
Nana Kwasi Adjei Boateng urged the students to remain focused
and pursue their future aspirations.
Whilst admonishing the graduands to use their skills acquired to
improve themselves, he also reminded them of the vulnerability and
prowess of the youth to various negative influences most of which
come in to play during the period of anxiety, impatience or even
desperation to secure employment as soon as possible.
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