By Emelia B. Addae
Koforidua, Sept. 20, GNA – The Seed of Fortune-Ghana has equipped about 50 female students in Koforidua with an intensive training on education technology, business pitch and a Girls Start-Up Competition.
Among the participating schools were Oti Boateng Senior High School, Oyoko Methodist Senior High School and the Ghana Senior High School (GHANASS).
Lady Juliet Nyarko Adansi, Country Lead for Seed of Fortune – Ghana said the students were taken through email account creation, email etiquettes, business pitch, business website development and career path.
She said the criteria for selection in the Girls Start-Up Competition were the best students that developed the best business idea particularly from a social impact perspective and innovative, and the best in a well-developed or a designed website.
A number of students did their utmost best to win the competition with tablets as their prizes.
She said: “We believe in continuous mentorship, so the tablets given to the winners would guide and help them advance their entrepreneurial journey as they build on the digital skills acquired.”
Lady Adansi urged students to regularly visit their schools’ Information and Communication Technology (ICT) laboratories to practice the skills they had acquired.
Seed of Fortune Ghana is a non-profit organization established by Nitiya Walker and has operated in the United States of America for over 10 years.
The organization aims to financially empower young women with vision, teaching financial literacy, professional development skills, and supporting them to apply for college scholarships.
GNA