The recently concluded business for growth, not for survival trade fair in Bo, according to German International Corporation’s deputy program coordinator for the employment promotion program, Rudolfr Schneider, aims to transform survival-oriented businesses into market-oriented growth enterprises that will then achieve micro industrial status for increased job and income generation.
The private sector component is one of the employment promotion programs that is meant to support micro small and medium enterprise to move from business for survival to business for growth, which implies those businesses that one have been doing for daily sustenance could be done as opposed to livelihood.
GIZ Senior Private Advisory, Joseph Bobor assured that the beneficiaries will grow. He said participants comprise beneficiaries “we have been supporting for the past three years and we have got the feelings that’s a good number of them has grown to a level that they needed to come and showcase what they are doing for the past three years.”
Deputy Director TVET Ministry of Technical and Higher Education, Hawa Coker remarked, “our lives can not revolve without entrepreneurship. So, we just have to believe in what we are doing; whatever you’re doing in your communities, that you have just decided to showcase a tip of it; you just have to believe in it and have confidence.”
Minister of Planning and Economic Development, Francis Mustapha Kai Kai said, “we do not need mere consumers we also need producers not only for today, but also for the future because it’s about making sure that gets our food stock that we take us through the year.
It also give outlets for farmers on the farm because they know there are people that only buy from them in a way that would last longer.”
The Entrepreneurs call on all to join them in ago-business, processing and marketing rather than depending on politicians to transform their lives.
