{"id":1068785,"date":"2022-04-27T17:41:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T17:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/27\/dont-always-wait-on-government-start-something-on-your-own-youth-urged\/"},"modified":"2022-04-27T17:41:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T17:41:49","slug":"dont-always-wait-on-government-start-something-on-your-own-youth-urged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/27\/dont-always-wait-on-government-start-something-on-your-own-youth-urged\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t always wait on government, start something on your own\u2014youth urged"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Accra, April 27, GNA \u2013 Mr Franklin Leonards, Board Chairman of Switch Up Ghana Group, has urged young people to use available digital tools, and social media to start employable ventures on their own instead of always waiting for government employment.<\/p>\n
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He said they could start such ventures through collaboration and partnership among themselves as well as through digital and media platforms.<\/div>\n
\u201cI wish most young people can think and create opportunities for themselves through the adoption of digital platforms and partnerships among themselves. With this, the Government can later come in with the needed support,\u201d he stressed.<\/div>\n
Mr Leonards said this while commending a group of young people who had established a culture and tourism venture dubbed \u201cSwitch Up Ghana,\u201d an avenue they intend to use to promote Ghana\u2019s culture and tourism industry.<\/div>\n
The Switch Up Ghana Group seeks to digitalise the country\u2019s history and heritage to the world thereby creating a platform where people from the diaspora can visit and tour Ghana.<\/div>\n
The Group also unveiled its board members comprising Mr Franklin Leonards, who is the Chairperson; Mrs Mavis Leonards, Board Secretary, and Colonel Mustapha Abass.<\/div>\n
The rest are Mr Dominic Oduro Antwi and Ms Firdus Salifu.<\/div>\n
Mr Leonards called on stakeholders in the history and tourism industry to digitally document Ghana\u2019s culture and heritage in order not to lose them.<\/div>\n
\u201cWe need to tailor our history in a mordenised, digital way, by adopting technology and social media to sell Ghana\u2019s history,\u201d he added.<\/div>\n
He stressed the need to revisit and teach the history of communities and tourism areas in schools and for individuals, especially the youth, not to lose sight of them.<\/div>\n
\u201cWe cannot sell what we have if we are ignorant of it. Most people do not know much about their history and are losing their sense of culture and heritage,\u201d he reiterated.<\/div>\n
Mr Benjamin Oduro Bosompem, CEO of the Organisation, said they intended to give visitors real-time tourism and cultural experience through their organisation.<\/div>\n
\u201cWe intend to change the narrative of tourism in the country, whereby visitors would have the opportunity to integrate with communities and tourist sites,\u201d he indicated.<\/div>\n
He said that they would soon launch a \u201cSwitch Up Xperience. Com,\u201d where foreigners and locals could visit and savour tourist sites and communities.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Accra, April 27, GNA \u2013 Mr Franklin Leonards, Board Chairman of Switch Up Ghana Group, has urged young people to use available digital tools, and social media to start employable ventures on their own instead of always waiting for government employment. He said they could start such ventures through collaboration and partnership among themselves as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1068786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[342,1090,10494,2027,581,1889],"class_list":["post-1068785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-dont","tag-government","tag-ownyouth","tag-start","tag-urged","tag-wait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}