INSPIRING GIRL EDUCATION
-Philomena Agorda's journey
The minimum qualification to read Fashion at Cape Coast Technical Institute was O' Level Certificate hence she had no choice but to, as the only girl among boys, settle for Auto Engineering for a year before getting the greenlight to pursue her Fashion course.
She was okay with the theoretical aspects of Auto Engineering but she would sneak to the Fashion class to sew for them when she had to go for Auto Engineering practicals that drained her energy.
Her first job, just after her Intermediate Certificate in Fashion, was as an instructor at Father Dogli Memorial Trade School in the Volta Region where she taught for 2years.
Then to Anum Presbyterian Vocational School in the Eastern Region where she has been for the past 14years.
Though an instructor in Fashion, indomitably spirited Mrs Agorda has learnt detergent production and currently has to her credit over 30 different kinds of the product she has invested in as an entrepreneur, despite the challenges in combining it with teaching, family life and further learning.
The detergent business, she underscores, has been rewarding but daunting due to constraints in sponsorship, marketing, transport, production unit, among others, but she is never giving up as she envisages training at least 5,000 Ghanaian youth every year and venturing exporting her products, all things being equal.
She has implored grammar-biased schools to value Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in such oriented departments in their schools to make their graduates readily employable.
She has admonished boys to show interests in the so-called no go areas for boys because girls, today, are defying the odds to rub shoulders with boys in all disciplines.
As a mother and mentor to many girls, Mrs Agorda has admonished girls
"to be courageous, godfearing, determined and focused" .
✍🏽: Osei Kuffour
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