Entrepreneur and a level 600 Optometry student at the University of Cape Coast, Edwin Obeng Verner is urging the youth to put their God-given and acquired skills to use in order to earn a livelihood.
He says he is convinced that in putting such skills and talents to good use, the hardships that most youths of the country go through will be a thing of the past.
Speaking exclusively to ATL FM during the official opening of GoldenHive Media, an art enterprise at Amamoma in the Cape Coast Metropolis, he said the idea to start something to earn a livelihood while on campus started in 2019.
“When I was in level 200 during the Long vacation, I was just home doing nothing. So I just thought of doing something with my life, at least making use of my time. So I had a laptop then; I went to YouTube, I searched online then I started learning some of these digital paintings and designing with Photoshop and all. And then I spent a month at a T-shirt printing shop and that’s where I had the skill of doing screen printing and all.
But the sincere motivation is that things became very hard. I was not getting money for some things I used to do on campus. So I just knew that I had to start something, do something, and then make good use of it. So that was a strange motivation that made me start the business, I think way back in 2019 through the COVID season,” He said.
As he looks forward to expanding the shop in a few years to come, he is hopeful of having a space that will also undertake photo shoots and where more students can be employed as part-time workers to also enable them to learn skills that they can use to support themselves financially.
He said he has high hopes that the art shop would be fully established to create employment for the youth with someone to manage the shop while he also focuses on his optometry school and career.
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