{"id":739276,"date":"2022-01-07T14:43:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/youth-urged-to-take-advantage-of-youstart-initiative\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T14:43:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:43:28","slug":"youth-urged-to-take-advantage-of-youstart-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/youth-urged-to-take-advantage-of-youstart-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth urged to take advantage of \u2018YouStart\u2019 initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Takoradi, Jan 07, GNA – The Western Regional Minister, Mr Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, has encouraged the youth to prepare adequately towards taking advantage of the \u201cYouStart\u201d initiative to create sustainable businesses for self-employment.<\/p>\n
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The initiative, as stated in the 2022 Budget Statement and Economic Policy, was a more sustainable way of dealing with graduate unemployment in the country, he said.<\/div>\n
He urged the youth, who were interested in entrepreneurship, not to despise the small beginnings of their businesses as they could grow into big entreprises with the needed push and attention.<\/div>\n
Mr Darko-Mensah, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, therefore, implored final year tertiary students to concentrate on their studies, graduate with good grades, and enter into profit-making ventures with the knowledge acquired.<\/div>\n
He recounted how his grandmother started a corn milling business, which later got her into the hotel business and later become a legacy of a big family company.<\/div>\n
He urged the youth with interest in politics to be courageous to pursue it with a good conscience and not self-seeking interests.<\/div>\n
The Minister encouraged the citizens not to shy away from their tax obligations but must prioritise them to propel the wheels of development.<\/div>\n
On infrastructural development in the region, he said the sod had been cut for the commencement of the Takoradi-Tarkwa road where work was progressing steadily.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Takoradi, Jan 07, GNA – The Western Regional Minister, Mr Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, has encouraged the youth to prepare adequately towards taking advantage of the \u201cYouStart\u201d initiative to create sustainable businesses for self-employment. The initiative, as stated in the 2022 Budget Statement and Economic Policy, was a more sustainable way of dealing with graduate unemployment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":739277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[579,580,581,391,582],"class_list":["post-739276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-advantage","tag-initiative","tag-urged","tag-youstart","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739276","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=739276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}