20 upgrade skills in fashion designing
After going through a 10-day intensive workshop designed to equip them with new techniques in fashion design and dressmaking, 20 fashion designers from the Afigya Kwabre district have graduated with an assurance to use their new techniques and skills to improve their livelihood.
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The workshop, organised by the Afigya Kwabre Business Advisory Centre (BAC) with financial support from the Rural Enterprise Programme (REP), saw the beneficiary fashion designers going through patterns, shapes, finishing, and traditional and western designs.
The beneficiaries, who can now design both African and Western styles for both males and females with finesse, are bubbling with confidence to use their newly acquired skills to expand their businesses.
Ms Grace Afriyie, one of the beneficiaries, told the Daily Graphic that the workshop had not only improved her technique in designing African wear, but had also improved her finishing style.
“I am returning home full of confidence because with the skills acquired, I will be able to provide the requisite service to my clients with the view to marketing my operations. Very soon, the people in my community will appreciate my handiwork, and will soon flood my shop with materials” she said.
Ms Evelyn Donkor, another beneficiary, was sure of imparting the newly acquired skills to her apprentices as a way of winning more customers.
Commending the Afigya Kwabre Business Advisory Centre(BAC) for their facilitation role, and the Rural Enterprises Programme for the financial support, in making it possible for them to acquire new techniques in fashion design, Ms Donkor said the skills and knowledge acquired would help the development of their businesses, increase their income, create employment and improve their livelihoods.
Addressing the graduands during the closing ceremony, the Afigya Kwabre District head of BAC, Ms Marina Serwaah Kusi, urged the beneficiaries to use their newly acquired skills to woo more customers.
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She also advised them to be more responsive to the needs of their clients by designing their materials on the scheduled time to win their confidence of the customers.