The Opoku Ware Girls Vocational Institute at Esreso, near Kumasi will soon hold an entrepreneurial sensitization durbar in honour of students who passed out between November 2007 and June 2008. The durbar, which is aimed among other things to sensitize the graduates about the need to set-up their own businesses would be on the theme "Women's effective contribution to the socio-economic development of the nation, the vocational technical graduates factor". Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency at Esreso on Friday, Mrs Augustina Ofosu-Asiedu, Assistant Headmistress of the School, said the graduates, who are about 145 in number have graduated in areas such as General and Advanced Catering, Intermediate Catering, Fashion, Cookery, Dressmaking, Hair Dressing and NVTI Grade One. She said, some of the students, after they had left school deviated from the skills and training they acquired and engaged in menial jobs due to lack of capital to set-up their own businesses. "At the end of the durbar, the graduates would have realized that, they could begin a business with a small amount of money", she said. She noted that other programmes to mark the sensitization exercise included a cleanup exercise at the Kumasi South Hospital, health walk and fun games. Mrs Ofosu-Asiedu stated that the School also encountered challenges such as slow infrastructure development, lack of an administration block, inadequate library books and computers. She, therefore, called on the Government and philanthropists to go to the aid of the School. Source: GNA