The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES) and Volta Regional Coordinating Council (VRCC) has organised a capacity-building workshop for student leaders from selected schools in the Ho Municipality of the Volta Region.

The workshop was focused on providing the beneficiaries with the requisite knowledge to lead in their respective schools and communities to help attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

The students who were school prefects and student representative council leaders were drawn from WALLAHS Senior High School, Mawuko Girls E.P Senior High School, Taviefe Senior High School, Sokode Technical Senior Highs School, Mawuli Senior Highs School and Ola Girls Senior Highs School.

They were lectured on the 17 SDGs created in 2015, containing well-tailored programmes to end poverty and inequality, protect the planet, and ensure universal health coverage, justice, and prosperity.

The Volta, Eastern, and Oti Regional Treasurer of AGI, Dela Gbeve said the workshop stems from the association's objectives of promoting the Volta Region as an investment, and tourism destination hence preparing the minds of the younger generation toward the targeted feat.

“So we decided to offer leadership and sustainability training to them, as student leaders, and also teach them about the SDGs which are crucial to our economic development,” he said.

He further indicated that the student leaders would be taken on a tour of some tourism sites in the region to familiarise themselves with the sites, adding the initiative would be expanded to cover the entire region.

A Leadership Coach, Bismark Tay took the students through leadership skills and how to become discipline students to lead the student body and the school’s administration towards achieving the intended objectives.

He urged them to become models of discipline and uphold the standards of their respective schools.

Mr. Tay lauded the initiative by AGI and GES and underscored the imperative need for the younger generation to be prepared to lead into the future.

“It is extremely important because we can’t expect good leaders when we do not consciously invest time and energy into the making of these leaders. And if we are talking about sustainability, the future of society, the future of our region, we should be consciously preparing those who will lead the sustainability of the region”, he said.

He entreated the organizing institutions to scale up the leadership workshop to cover the meteor region to increase its impact.

A communique was issued to be presented to the President through the RM on an action plan to be implemented to ensure the sustainability of the society.