Twenty returned migrant workers and Ghanaian-African potential business entrepreneurs have ended a one week German Sparkassenstiftung – DSIK Business Training at the Credit Unions Association Centre (CUATraC) at Kasoa in the Central Region of Ghana.
The training, which lasted from 7th to 11th November, 2022 was under the German Corporation GIZ with its partners and executed by German Sparkassenstiftung – DSIK for International Co-operation.
The German Sparkassenstiftung for International Cooperation which is a joint entity of the Saving Banks Finance Group in Germany has been supporting financial institutions in developing and emerging countries by offering needs-oriented financial services.
German Sparkassenstiftung pursues the objective to enhance the professionalism of its partner institutions, thus enabling them to offer their customers a permanent access to financial products. This batch of participants were selected and coordinated by the Ghanaian-German Centre for Job, Migration and Reintegration (GGC), including newly returned migrant workers from Germany, Dubai, members of Migrant Labour General Workers’ International (MLGWUI) and Internal Ghanaian African Potential Business Entrepreneurs as well as business students in Ghana.
The two Senior Trainers took the trainees through Micro-Business Simulation “Get to Know Number in theory and practice and Simulation “The Saving Game” in theory and practice. Five Group Competitions were conducted on Day 3 three as first part on business enterprises group entities and on Day 5 five as second part was on family group names during the training.
At the end of each competition, awards were presented to the winning groups respectively. On Day 5 five, last day, a Labour Migration story was told by a professional Ghanaian Teacher and Returned Migrant Worker from Germany. He shared his experiences in the diaspora on family frustration on unemployment situation and challenges which led him to attempt forced marriage.
He later resorted to the opportunity offered by the International Organisation for Migration on Voluntary Return Support to return to Ghana with a promised package.
According to him, he left the country because of his insufficient salary as a teacher because like many of his colleagues, he was borrowing money from various sources to meet family needs.
During question time, he was asked whether he would return to Ghana Education Service to continue teaching. He quickly replied “I have decided to become business entrepreneur.”
The Senior Trainers advised the trainees to love their countries and try to become entrepreneurs. Certificate of Participation were presented to the trainees
On behalf of the trainees, Brother Justice Baako Ntarmah expressed gratitude to the Ghanaian-German Centre for Job, Migration and Reintegration (GGC) for the session.
MLGWUI assured newly Returned Migrants without skills or with skills but want to acquire more knowledge to exercise patience as MLGWUI is ready to submit their names as soon as the GGC informs them about the next training session.
