The Leadership Empowerment Club (LEC) Group and Success Africa Foundation have held a seminar to empower students and young people to achieve their life and academic dreams in order to become better people in the future.
The seminar was organized by the LEC Group and Success Africa Foundation under the theme, “Mind Shift” at the Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD UBIDS), Wa at the weekend.
The LEC Group, through its Success Africa Summit, has over the years mentored and trained young people to develop their capacities in Ghana and across Africa to lead and set up businesses.
At the seminar, various speakers, top-notched, took turns speaking to the over 500 students and young people on a wide range of topics, both face-to-face and virtual.
The speakers also shared their life experiences with the participants to inspire them to aspire to greater heights despite the present challenges that may be confronting them.
Mr Albert Prempeh Kusi, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the LEC Group and Success Africa Foundation speaking to Info Radio in Wa at the sidelines of the summit, said the organizations’ mandate is to help young people to build themselves and transform their lives for today and future prospects.
“We are in a country where young people are going through periods of unemployment, completing university and not getting a job, those in the senior high school not even having the encouragement to go to the university because of issues of unemployment,” Mr Kusi observed with lamentation.
He said it was against the backdrop that the LEC Group sought to reach out to the young people in school to help them program their lives in a manner as to not depend on the government for employment but to have the ability to create their own businesses and employ themselves and others.
He said the essence was for the motivational speakers to speak to the conscience of the young people to have a ‘mind shift’ towards discovering and nurturing their potential.
“So what we sought to do was to bring resource persons who would able to impact their lives into these young people, who would be able to build the capacity of these young people, who would be able to show them the way and the path they must chart so that they can also be able to become great future leaders.
And then whatever capacity that they find themselves, whatever challenges, we came here at UBIDS Wa Campus to let them know that, it is possible wherever that you are, you can also achieve your greatest dream,” the LEC Group founder said.
Mr Kusi encouraged young people to spend more time acquiring knowledge rather than seeking life’s pleasures saying that, “for the young people of today, we should start thinking of knowledge acquisition much more than fun.”
He observed that some young people are not interested in pursuing life goals and live their lives carelessly without any sense of purpose.
“It’s been a mixed feeling, you have some young people who are not interested in the journey of life, they live their lives anyhow and no matter how you try to direct them, they don’t take.
“But you also have that group of other young people who are passionate about success, who are determined to succeed and they would do everything, buy the books, attend the seminars…,” he intimated.
He further encouraged the youth to sharpen their minds and rise beyond the challenges they face and not allow themselves to be deterred by their circumstances and environment from breaking the shackles of poverty and advancing to the global levels.
Miss Linda Dassah, a participant and student of the SDD UBIDS, told Info Radio the program was transformative and encouraged her colleagues to make optimum advantage of the program.
“We were taught through a lot of mind-shifting activities, for instance creating businesses even as students to make us better people,” she said.
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