The Chief Executive Officer of the KAMA Group of Companies, Dr. Michael Agyekum Addo has urged Ghanaian parents to encourage their children to be imaginative if the war against poverty will be won. Dr. Agyekum Addo, a pharmacist and a renowned businessman, said parents need to realize that the world is moving at a fast pace and thus the need to get young people to be creative and innovative during their formative years has become more necessary than ever before. Dr. Agyekum Addo was making a presentation on the topic Changing our world and the chaos in it, one family at a time at the ongoing International Women’s Fair at the National Theatre on Friday. The event, which is being organized on the theme The working woman’s contribution to development seeks to bring women from all sectors of the economy together to share their successes and challenges. Dr. Agyekum Addo who was the main speaker for the first plenary session of the conference, said the family as a unit is very important to Ghana’s development and the need to ensure that working class women continue to contribute greatly to the sustenance of the family system will greatly help in national development. To him, parents must take advantage of the information age as their children grow, adding it is however very vital to offer these children some vocational skills that will open various doors even when they complete the university. Dr. Agyekum Addo further said, families must put healthy lifestyle at the centre of their daily activities. This he said will ensure that the chaos in the family is highly reduced as healthy individuals, parents and children make a healthy family. He said it was not enough to have education, emphasising the inculcation of the right attitude in the lives of children will specifically determine if they become successful in life or not. Women, he said, must refrain from pampering their children as they will end up becoming albatrosses around their necks, insisting that it is important to discipline the children if these young ones will have a positive future. The International Women’s Fair conference is running concurrently with an exhibition at the foyer of the National Theatre. The conference will host personalities such as Dr. Kofi Amoah, Sandra Dhuyvetter, Florence Okra, Prof. Akosua Ampofo and Dr. Angela Ofori-Atta. See pictures of the event Story by Derick Romeo Adogla & Isaac Essel/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana